HA5 - Task 2

Animation Techniques

Stop motion animation:

Stop motion animation is a animation technique where the animators would physically move the objects in the film so what we would see is moving objects, for example, Wallace and Gromit is a very famous animation which did actually use stop motion animation, this is because Wallace and Gromit are actually made out of play do and play do can not actually move by its self, so what the animators did was film Wallace and Gromit doing something then they would stop the film and change the position of Wallace and Gromit then put the film back on, they would do this so many times until it made a scene and the viewers would see Wallace and Gromit doing something.

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Nightmare before Christmas.

Tim Burton`s nightmare before Christmas is a very good example of stop motion animation, this is because nightmare before Christmas is a 1993 american stop motion dark fantasy musical film directed by Henry Selick and if you have seen this you will know that it is a stop motion animation by the way it looks, but if you have not seen it you should know that it is a animation where the characters have been modeled by artists, but seeing as it is a musical it would of took the producers a long time to move the moths in the time of the lyrics o the songs.

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Tim Burton`s corpse bride is a 2005 British-American stop motion animated musical fantasy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton, this production was many years after nightmare before Christmas and as you can see by the two pictures above they look very different in production, but this could be because they have more money from when they were making nightmare before Christmas. 

     

Computer animation and 2d computer animation:

Computer animation is the latest stage of animation. Computer animation is very different to the other stages of animation that i have listed above, computer animation is where the animators will control the assets and characters on the computer and they will make different scenes using the assets and characters, this will be similar to the stop motion animation but instead it will be digital, they are similar because you have the assets and you create a scene by moving them in different stages and you will be recording this every time you do this.

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South park is one of the best examples of 2d animation and this is because it is a very popular 2d animation and many people watch it. Trey Parker and Matt Stone first created south park in 1992 but it was not a famous show until around 1997 when it became the first viral videos on the internet, the shows started gaining great reviews and stated getting really popular until it became one of the most watched shows in the world. South park had some issues with their audience and this is because they have some really brutal humor on the show, for example they have a lot of raciest comments, which some people take offensive, but the show dose intend to offend anybody they just consist on making people laugh.

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Family guy is another great example of 2d animation and this is also because it is another very popular show. Family guy was first put to the test when Seth MacFarlane, the creater and voice actor of the show put the show into the owner of a big company called FOX and they shortly went into production, in 2002 shortly after there 3rd series of family guy, FOX had to cancel the series because just like south park they have very brutal humor but FOX must of locked down on their content.