The Making of Lego House

Pixar

 About Pixar:

·      Bass it around their own thought when younger

·      Billy Crystal turned down Toy Story, saw the success of it then decided to accept the part in Monsters Inc

·      Movie doesn’t come to life unless you visualize it

·      Long process, takes around 2 years to make

·      California institute of the arts was started by Walt Disney

·      Animation program was made in A113, placed it in most films as a good luck charm

·      John Lasseter watched the film Tron in 1982, this inspired his imagination

·      John Lasseter made the idea of computer animation in Pixar

·      Steve Jobs bought Pixar in 1986, he made apple

·      Luxo Junior was made originally as a short movie but Pixar changed it to be pixars logo

Toy story:

·      Catch phrase ‘to infinity and beyond’

·      Made Woodys character dislike Buzz Light-year because of jealousy

·      If the making of the movie was fun, its going to be on screen

·      The first animation test was in1992

Bugs Life:

·      Had a tiny camera put in grass to see from a ants prospective

·      Research a lot about ants to make the movie

·      Difficult film to make but once complete they were certain they can produce any film

·      ‘Ant March: Director, John Lassetter (1998)

·      No individual ants have there own thoughts

Up:

·      Made in 2009

·      Real life balloons would lift a with 25 million but in an animation they used 20,000

·      Unusual idea, never shy away

Monsters Inc:

·      Made in 2001

·      Mike and Sulley: director of characters, Pete Doctor

Film mainly based around Mike and Sulley’s relationship

·      Film the voice overs to create the character

Nemo:

·      Made in 2003

·      Marlin Loses Nemo: Director, Andrew Stanton.

·      Scene of Marlin losing Nemo based around the director of the scene about being protective over his child. He used this story because he thought it is a universal situation.

·      Work on the scene a lot

The Incredibles:

·      Made in 2004

·      Display their powers; director, Brad Bird

·      Power matches the character

·      Producer, John Walker

Toy Story 3:

·      Made in 2010

·      Ken meets Barbie; director, Lee Unkrich

The voice:

·      Pixar has the same voice overs in more than one film

·      The voice overs are made before the animation

·      The voice overs are films whilst practicing

My Timeline

My Timeline:

This is my timline on all the different types of animation productions and animators such as Tex Avery, Sullivan's studio and Walt Disney.
It also shows the year the animations and the devices were created such as the Phenakistoscope, Kinetoscope and Sound film. I have introduced famous animations for example, Felix the Cat, Tom and Jerry and Donald Duck.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion:

Stop motion also known as stop frame is an animation technique to make a physically object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or "clay-mation". Not all stop motion requires figures or models; many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect. Stop motion using objects is sometimes referred to as object animation.

Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones was born on September 21, 1912 and died on February 22, 2002.
he was an animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films.
he worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros and his own production called Chuck Jones Productions.




The animations he produced was:

•  Bugs Bunny, 
• Daffy Duck, 
• the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote,  
• Sylvester, 
• Pepé Le Pew

Anime

Anime Review One:

This short film is eye catching to me because i personally like action films, also the animation is very clear and is in HD which gives the video a better concept. The video is very easy for me to understand so it would be even more easy for other people to understand as i dont understand anime that well.

draw on film

Drawn on Film - Cel Animation - Painting Film:

Cel Animation:

A traditional form of animation used in the production of cartoons or animated movies where each frame of the scene is drawn by hand. A full-length feature film produced using cel animation would often require a million or more drawings to complete.
A cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate used as a medium for painting animation frames. It is transparent so that it can be laid over other cels and/or a painted background, then photographed.

Draw on Film/Paining Film:

Drawn on film animation, also known as animation without camera, is an animation technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock, as to any other form of animation where the images or objects are photographed frame by frame with an animation camera. On blank film the artist can draw, paint, stamp, or even glue or tape objects. Black film can be scratched, etched, sanded, or punched. Any tool the artist finds useful may be used for this, and all techniques can be combined endlessly.

Tex Avery

Tex Avery:

Tex Avery was born on February 26,1908 in Texas and he died on August 26, 1980.
 He was an animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, he created the charaters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck ect he worked with these characters in the Warner Bros and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios.

Rotoscope

 Rotoscope:

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animcomputers.

ator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device was eventually replaced by
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

It was invented by Max Fleischer in 1915, the first ever animation made by a rotoscope was 'out of the inkwell' which was released around 1915, he carried on with the method in 1917.

Kinetiscope

Kinetiscope:
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope

It was suggested in 1888 by a man called Thomas Edison and developed by a man called William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892.

Emile Reynaud - Praxinoscope

Emile Reynaud-Praxinoscope:
 A band of pictures is placed inside a shallow outer cylinder, so that each picture is reflected by the inner set of mirrors.  The number of mirrors is equal to the number of pictures, and the images of the pictures are viewed in the mirrors.  When the outer cylinder rotates, the quick succession of reflected pictures gives the illusion of a moving picture. 

Source: http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit11.htm

The Praxinoscope was the first invention of Émile Reynaud in 1876. Patented in 1877, it's a toy giving the optical illusion of movement.

Source: http://www.emilereynaud.fr/en/index.php/post/The-Praxinoscope

Joseph Plateatu - Phenakistoscope

Joseph Plateatu- Phenakistoscope:
The Phenakistoscope is uses the persistence of vision to create an illusion of motion. Although this theory had been recognized by the Greek mathematician Euclid, it wasn’t until 1829 that this principle became firmly established by Plateau. The Phenakistoscope used two discs mounted on the same axis. The first disc had slots around the edge, and the second had drawings of action, drawn around the disc in circles. Unlike Faraday’s wheel, whose pair of discs spun in opposite directions, a Phenakistoscope discs spun together in the same direction.  When viewed in a mirror through the disc’s slots, the pictures on the second disc will appear to move.
 source: http://animationgeek.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/early-pioneer-joseph-plateau.html

Paul Roget- Thaumatrope

Paul Roget- Thaumatrope:

A Thaumatrope was very popular in Victorian times.

this is made by a piece of card with drawings on each side but on one side it is upside down so the effect works better, the card is atteched with a piece of string on each side. It was created by Paul Roget.