Idea's for my Animation

Ideas For My Animation

Animation Type: I will be using clay animation with figures I will make out of clay, they might be based on the characters I've drawn.
I will achieve this with stop motion and use clay work models in my animation.

Examples: With clay work animation I can do my animation in a way i know how.
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As these examples are some of the best in their respected animation types.
The characters I have chosen to make have been drawn in preparation and I am going to make them out of clay, with just one exception on the detail.

I designed and drew theses characters from my own idea's and I was inspired to make them by looking at various superhero designs.

Storyboard: the storyboard plays like a game with a character running through defeating enemies.

For Example:

13th of march 2014

I remade this character into the one below because it was not best for movement.





20th march I have completed the design for a new character based on a alien plant.

Here I've made two snakes that I am going to use in the opening of my video. There is only going to be one fight in the movie, but the rest of the characters will be in a opening scene.

Background:

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000064886109-n2ucnx-original.jpg?435a760

I found some images that I can use for my background and I am looking for Backgrounds that can match an alien planet background.



I have now finished the pre production phase of my work by finishing my clay work and getting a hold of a background for the animation.



Now that i have completed all of this I can now start on my animation where i have changed the story a bit. It will still be game based, but it will be a battle game from here on out with these various characters.

http://padlet.com/millermarcus18/17uj79cucol8

I have opened up adobe Premiere Pro and I am currently editing it with openings, credits and audio effects.

On this program called adobe Audition I was able to edit the various audio for my movie and make sure that it was synced up with the right moment

I first had to select the audio and cut specific bits out in multitrack, after that i went to export on the top bar and pressed export, media, entire session and to save it to my USB as a MP3

In this programe called Adobe premier, this is where I edited my work with the audio and videos as well, this way I could do all my work detailed.

Modern Animation And Different Animation Types

Modern Animation And different Animation types

The Simpsons:
How it was done: Cell based animation is where each produced cell is reproduced and is then made into different variations towards a new cell.
such as in the Simpsons, all the cells where hand drawn first.
Created by: Matt Groening
Animation Style: Cell based animation
How it was done:
This show originally started out as a short cartoon that was shown on The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19th 1987, later it was made into a half an hour prime time show based upon a dysfunctional family. it aired on December 1989 and has gone onto its 25th season with about 539 episodes so far at the 10/1/2014.
The layout of the show is basically the families problems and (somewhat) fixing them at the end. The number of characters in the show have grown through out the years, but people have always liked the main characters that have lasted for so many years through the shows fun and antics.


South Park: Cut out animation is where you take cut outs and use them in stop motion animation to create a moving movie.
How it works: Cut out is the same as what you do with clay animation you take cuttings of paper and take photos of the motion sequence over and over to give the illusion of motion.
Created by: Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Animation Style: Cut out paper which later became computer animation.
This animated show was created in 1997 and has since then made a wide variety of fans and many people who hate the series as well. the entire layout of the series is on issues's that happen in the public and the messages that are given at the end. although the entire show is inappropriate to some and most of the comedy is around shock humor.

Morph: Morph is made with clay stop motion animation where you take clay make it into a moving movie.
How is it done: It works by putting a piece of clay on camera and take a photo of one then change it slightly, then photo it again in the same order. after that put all of the images together and it gives the allusion of motion.
Created by: Peter Lord
Animation Style: Clay based
Morph is a claymation show based around the hilarious sketches of a character called Morph.

Animation Styles:

Pixilation: Pixillation is where you use a human instead of an inanimate object for a movie.
How is it done:
It is done the same way as clay you just move bit by bit in order to get the illusion of movement and in some cases people include clay in these movies in order to do more amazing things.

Time-Lapse: Time lapse is where a film can be created through multiple frames such as stop motion movies made with clay like morph. This process cannot be seen normally be the human eye such as the movement of the sun or the stars in the sky.

How does it work: 
set up a camera and the camera will go off at a set time and make up the film from frames that are taken every time the camera goes off such as the sun rise video it take hours to do but due to less frames the video will be a few minutes based on the number of frames.

Godzilla claymation

These are pictures of the clay model of Godzilla, that i and Ethan made for our claymation work. All of this is for educational purposes.

We made him out of black and gray clay.



Today we have put in the clay animations back ground, the background was too small and vus had to be placed upon a large platform for the camera.

We have finished the work for our clay animation movie and it can be viewed below

Godzilla Ethan and Marcus.mp4
After editing the video so it has an opening and credits I opened it up in Garage Band and I choose several sound effects to put in the background.

I'm using the music for educational purposes. I dragged the music file from the folder to garage band and I edited the parts of the music so it would match up with the video's effects. After that I then saved along side the Godzilla video. 

TV early animations

Yogi:
Yogi is a smarter than the average bear who lives in jellystone park with his friend Boo Boo. He is usually coming up with crazy schemes to steal picknick baskets and make sure hes not found out by ranger smith. He was created by William hanna, Joseph barbera and ed Benedict. the character was produced by hanna barbera and columbia pictures television. The usual storyline is yogi bear and boo boo bear coming up with idea's to steal pick nick baskets.

Top Cat:
Top cat is a wise talking street cat which his friends cal T.C. he wears a purple hat and vest. he causes trouble around where ver he goes with his friends and usually catches trouble from officer dibble. this cartoon was produced with hanna-barbera. the usual story line is usually him coming up with a scheme that goes wrong for officer dibble.

Scooby Doo:

Scooby is a mystery solving dog he is a member of mystery inc.. , a group of meddling kids who solve mysteries where ever they go. The show was  created by joe ruby and ken spears. The show has produced numerous spin-off's and usually goes on some continuity with a few characters. the storyline is basically the same every time a monster a appears the team investigates and find out that it is usually a guy in a mask.

Animation

Animation 1930's-1950's

Disney: Disney in 1930 made its first successful full length movie snow white afterwards it went on to do many other great films like dumbo with its musical animation of pink elephants on parade and various other movies.

Fleischer: Popeye:
Fleischer has created many characters such as Koko the clown, Betty boop and Popeye the sailor man, the company was a big competitor against Walt Disney productions but the studios parent company paramount picture forced the company to close which resulted in Disney getting ahead in business.
Popeye is a fictional character created by Fleischer studios, the character gets into fights and grows stronger by eating tins of spinach. Popeye has starred in 109 cartoons and has also starred appearances in other shows such as family guy.

Tom and Jerry: by Fred Quimby

He created Tom and Jerry and received many awards for it. The series is going on today although it does not have what some today call racist content.











Art Clokey: art clokey created Gumby show and davey and goliath. the gumby show is a popular show that has won awards and later was made into a movie that got more people interested.

Cartoons: Felix the cat
Gumby
Walt disney cartoons

The First Of Animaters

The first of Animaters

George Mellies: George Mellies was one originally a magician and later one of the original filmakers he made various with props and backgrounds drawn and painted by him and many others.

He made various other movies such as the impossible voyage, trip to the moon and he was also mention in a book and in the film adaption Hugo.












Winsor Mccay: He was one of the original animators and cartoonists. His best works was Gertie the Dinosaur and little Nemo that was in 1980 was adapted into a film.
Winsor Mccay animation and technical levels was not matched until Walt Disney's feature films arrived in the 1930's.

Lottie Reiniger:

Was a German animator and film director whose animation are silhouettes. her silhouette movies where of various fairy tales and she was one of the first to introduce the Arabian nights stories with her movie prince Achmed.

Walt Disney: was an the creator of various Disney characters such as the Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. He is the owner and creator of many animated films such as Steam boat willie and various other Disney films based on fairy tales.

Stop Motion

Norman McLaren first started stop motion with his award winning movie Neighbors.
Pixilation is people moving people animation it works by taking multiple pictures of a person and putting them together in an animation, many people use this method like Pes.

I myself have done it today with my stop motion movie that I have placed above.