Animation

Seth Macfarlane

Seth is the creator of the two animations Family guy and American Dad. Before this he worked as a writer and animator for both the TV series "Johnny Bravo" and "Cow and Chicken." Family Guy was developed after Seth finished developing two animated films called "The Life of Larry" and "Larry and Steve."

Matt Groening

Matt Groening is an American Cartoonist, screenwriter and also a producer. Matt Groening is the creator of some of the best animations such as "Futurama" and also "The Simpsons". The Simpsons is and American Sitcom mainly targeted for the middle class public. The Simpsons is the lingest running animation going so fair with its 24th season previewing in september 2012. It has done so well that it was also awarded its very own feature film in 2007. 

Aardman

Aardman is an animation company thats studio is based in a British animation studio in Bristol. The studio has made films using only clay stop-motion animations and using plasticine characters in films such as "wallace and Gromit" and also "Flushed Away." "Flushed Away" then moved over into the computer animation business and became a huge success there. Aardman was founded buy Peter Lord and David Sproxton.

Pioneers of Animation

George Melies

George was a french man who was the first person to use the fade-in and fade-out techniques. However he was one of the pioneers of stop motion. He was also pioneer of hand painted frames in film, multiple exposure and time lapse. During his active years as a filmmaker he produced an amazing number of 531 films. He would cut one image unto another and trick the mind into seeing something they didn't think was possible.

Here is one of him animations. Another one of his tricks was the he would suddelny stop filming and then move something in front of the camera. This gave you the illusion that that something had moved on its own. 

Norman McLaren is know to be the most awarded filmmakers know in Canada. One of the first known of Norman that because he didn't have access to a camera he actually attempted scratching and painting the film stock itself. Norman made several propaganda films for the NFB (National Film Board) in 
canada but the later founded the whole animation department.


Norman was first famous for his film "Neighbours".



This film was made in a style called pixilation. He did this by filming  moving people or objects by a few frames at a time. This then gave the actions in the frame a sort of frantic look.

Art Clokey

thur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.





Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen is an American visual effects creator, writer and producer. He created a brand of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation."