Time Lapse

A Time lapse is when you take a series of images over a certain amount of time. These images are then played back to make a moving image sequence. When making a Time lapse you have to plan the amount of time between each image.

Some people have created a time lapse where they take only one picture everyday over a years time.

This video time lapse was taken over a time period of 9 Months. A young couple became a Youtube hit when they uploaded a video they had made themselfs. The video shows the changes and growth of the body during pregnancy. The couple took a different photo everyday over the full pregnancy. This video is amazing as you can actaully see the everyday difference pregnancy has on your body.

This next animation was taken over of a time of 4 and a half hours and took place on December 21st 2010. It was taken by Kareem Brown as she shot the lunor Eclipse.

The best Time lapses are the ones taken over a long period of time this is because you see the best effects and changes throughout the video.

Pixalition

Pixilation is another form of stop motion animation its sort of like model based animation however intead of using cut outs or plastercine models its made with live people.

This technique came about a while ago back in 1952. It was created by a man called Norman McLaren who made a short film called "Neighbours".

I think people enjoy Pixilation animation because it is live people and if you were to make the models hover in the air for a long time it is more impressive than if you were to see a drawing animation do it.

Another example of Pixilation Animation is one that I found on the internet. I really enjoyed this video as i think it is very creative and unique to others i have seen. It is amazing because instead of only having one movement in the video there is loads of different things moving. Making this video must have taken a while and you can tell alot of work went into it.

This one is called "Her Morning Elegance" by Yuval and Merav Nathan.

Another one of Norman McLarens was an animation called Pas de Deux. 

The choreography for this video was done so well that the ballet was able to get in the exact same position from the begining

Pixilation Animation

(THINGS I NEED TO DO - CREATE MY OWN PIXILATION ANIMATION)

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cut out add class exercise
model based add examples
add all things on pixelation
all cell based
and animation timeline

Cell Based Animation

Cell based animation is the more traditional way of doing animation. Cell based is when you have to draw each frame from every scene by hand. You would have to have about a million drawings if you were going to make a full feature length film. 

You would find that all the traditional and old animations for example 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Snow White' and 'Dumbo' were all made by Cell Based Animation.

Beauty and the Beast

Snow White

 If i were to make my own Cell based animation I would have to be prepared to be making it for quite a while. This is probably the hardest type of animation out there.

Time lapse

Time lapse is loads of images taken over a certain amount of time and then played back to create an animation. Below is an example of a Time lapse animation below;

Cut out animations

Cut out animation is all about making movement/animation with paper cut outs. The animation itself is cut out shapes plasted on a flat surface and then moving the cutout and taking individual pictures of the motion. When played back this gives you the movement. Cut out animation is a different style than any of the others and can sometimes make the scene seem jerky rather than smooth. Cut out animations are commonly found in childrens programes such as Captain Pug Wash.

Captain Pug wash is a children's animated TV Series. They are filmed and made with cardboard cutouts in live action. Captain Pugwash was created by John Ryan

Here is a clip of one of the very first episodes of Captain pugwash.

Hedgehog in the Fog was release in October 23rd 1975 russian cutout animations. It was directed by Yuriy Norshteyn and written by Sergei Kozlov.

 This is a small clip of an episode of HEdgehog in the fog.

For my cut out animation i will be using this head that i cut from a magazine and moving the eyes and the features on the image.

(THINGS I NEED TO DO - CUT OUT ANIMATION WAS DELETED SO WE HAVE TO RECREATE OUR CUT OUT ANIMATION.)

My Model animation

Today we all had to have a go at making our own Model based animation. I decided to create a character using Plastercine and then created a Pig. After making my character i then made a box of grass for the Pig to eat out of.

I made my animation but conecting a camera to the computer on hovering over the character in a sort of BIrds eye view look. I then had to slowly move the pig and the take an individual picture after each tiny movement. I repeated this as the Pig walked over to the grass. I then removed a tiny piece of grass each picture intill it was out of view. The Pig then left the frame. When playing back each photo together it looks like the character is moving.

Model based animation

Model based animation is again another version of stop motion animation. With model based its usually found that a model is made for the character for eaxmple plstercine, and then the model is slowly moved in each frame to create the illusion of movement. One of the most known model based animation is "Morph".


An example of Model Animation is "Morph".

Morth was produced by the BBC Aardman Animations who then went on to make the amazing Wallace and Gromit.

The Wallace and Gromit is a full length feature film make with Models.

The animation classic Wallace and Grommet was created with Model animation. Today I made a model out of plastercine of my own. I decided to make a pig.

 

 

Persistence of Vision

Persistence of vision is i a phenomenon which fools the eye to thinking that a series of images is to be seen as a live motion.

For example a Zoetrope is a 19th century toy in the shape of a cylinder that has a series of images place inside the surface of the cylinder. Around the dge of the cylinder is slits that when looked through whilst the cylinder is spinning gives you the affect of a live motion.

Below is a video of a moving Zoetrope.