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Reel World of Animation

This document provides an overview of the history and development of animation. It discusses key pioneers and innovations in animation including Winsor McCay, Emile Cohl, the first animated cartoons in the late 1800s/early 1900s, Walt Disney adding sound in 1928. Major milestones are covered such as Snow White in 1937 being the first feature-length animated film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit blending live-action and animation in 1988, Jurassic Park using animatronics and CGI in 1993, and Avatar using motion capture in 2009. The traditional animation process of storyboarding, voice recording, animatics, character design, layout, and animation is also summarized.

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Reel World of Animation

This document provides an overview of the history and development of animation. It discusses key pioneers and innovations in animation including Winsor McCay, Emile Cohl, the first animated cartoons in the late 1800s/early 1900s, Walt Disney adding sound in 1928. Major milestones are covered such as Snow White in 1937 being the first feature-length animated film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit blending live-action and animation in 1988, Jurassic Park using animatronics and CGI in 1993, and Avatar using motion capture in 2009. The traditional animation process of storyboarding, voice recording, animatics, character design, layout, and animation is also summarized.

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Reel World of

Animation
ANIMATION
• It is a graphic representations
of drawings to show movement
within those drawings.
• It is the process of stringing
together a sequence of images
to create an illusion of
movement
PIONEERS OF ANIMATION
• Winsor McCay
• Emile Cohl – Father of animated
cartoon
• Georges Melies of France
FIRST ANIMATED CARTOON
• It was created by Charles – Emile
Reynaud in October 28, 1892
• Using his invention called Praxinoscope
1900 – The Enchanted Drawing

- a silent film by J. Stuart Blackton

- is credited as the first animated


sequence on film ever.
1906 - Humorous Phases of

Funny Faces
- It marks the first entirely animated film,
using stop-motion photography to create
action.
FIRST ANIMATED CARTOON:
Fantasmagorie
- August 17, 1908 - The world's first fully animated
cartoon created by Emile Cohl in the traditional hand-
drawn animation style.
- This showed people the magic of animated pictures
and changes how people saw 'reality' in movies.
First Multimedia Animation:
Gertie the Dinosaur

- Created by Winsor
McCay in 1914.

- This animated dinosaur


film is the first animation to make use
of key framing, in betweening,
registration marks and animation
loops.
1919 – Felix the Cat

- Felix was the leading character of


a series of short cartoons created
by Otto Messmer and became the
first real ‘star’ of the animated
silent film era.
WALT DISNEY
• Walt Disney took animation to
a new level
• He was the first animator to
add sound to his movie
cartoons.
In 1928 Walt Disney created
the premiere of Steamboat
Willie
1930 – Dizzy Dishes

- This animated cartoon about


an incompetent chef gets a
mention because it is the first
cartoon in which Betty Boop
appears.
1932 – Flowers and Trees
-This is part of Disney’s Silly Symphonies
series, and was the first film to win an
Academy Award for Best Animated Short
film.

- This was also the first animated film shot


with a three-strip Technicolor camera.
1933 – King Kong
- Widely considered to be one of
the greatest films of all time

– It earns its spot in the history of


evolution for including the most
advanced and convincing stop
motion animated characters yet
seen.
1937 - Snow white and
the seven dwarfs
- The first full length animated
feature film with the introduction of
computers.
- The first animated feature to use
hand-drawn animation.
1960 – The Flintstones
- This palaeolithic Hanna-Barbera
cartoon was the first ever prime-
time animated show.
1961 – One Hundred and
One Dalmatians
- It was the first full feature
animated film Disney made using
xerography. This is a process that
eliminates hand-inking the outlines
of the characters on each cell.
1985 – The Adventures of
Mark Twain
- Another first, this Will Vinton
production about Mark Twain, Tom
Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky
Thatcher was the first ever feature
length stop motion claymation film.
1987 - The Simpsons
- Is an American adult animated sitcom created
by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting
Company.

- It is the longest-running American sitcom, the


longest-running American animated program,
and in 2009 it surpassed Gunsmoke as the
longest-running American scripted primetime
television series.
1988 – Who Framed
Roger Rabbit
- The first feature film to have live-action
and cartoon characters share the same
screen.

- It is also a major milestone in animated


history because of the sheer number of
characters and assets from different
studios that made an appearance.
1993 – Jurassic Park

- Jurassic Park mixed


animatronics, stop-motion and
CGI to create the most photo-
realistic animated creatures
ever before seen on screen.
FULL ANIMATED

- STAR WARS by George


Lucas
- Toy Story – 1995
2009 – Avatar
- The next milestone in animation
history came from James
Cameron’s Avatar featuring real
actors in completely computer
generated worlds.
2012 – ParaNorman
- ParaNorman by studio LAIKA represents
some of the most advanced stop-motion
and modelling techniques in animation to
date.

- It was the first to make use of mass 3D


printing for its models – creating over
31,000 individual face parts during
production.
TRADITIONAL
ANIMATION PROCESS
1. STORY BOARD
It is made up of pictures and text.
Sequence of drawings with
descriptions
Story-based description.
2. VOICE RECORDING
• The sounds and speech are recorded
for use in the feature
• Preliminary soundtrack or "scratch
track" is recorded
• To Synchronize animation later
3. STORY REEL
• Also called animatic
• Pictures of the
storyboard
synchronized with
the soundtrack
• To work out
timing issues
4. DESIGN
• Starts creating the
necessary models
of the character.
• Each character
needs to be drawn
in various poses.
5. LAYOUT
• This phase is
synonymous to blocking
in live action video.
• This is where placements
of the characters and
other objects are
conceptualized with the
different backgrounds in
mind
6. ANIMATION
• The creation of sequence is
done here.
• It employs creating
drawings that stimulate the
movement of characters
and objects.
7. BACKGROUND
• SET DESIGN
• In this process,
the environment
where
characters and
other objects
move is created

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