The Phi Phenomenon is the optical illusion of perceiving a series of still images,when viewed in rapid succession,as continuous motion .Max Werthemier defined this phenomenon in 1912.
Persistence of vision is the main reason for motion illusion and it is the reason why we don't see black blocks between each frame which make the phi phenomenon a very good reason for illusion in cinema and animation and this is why we an see a smooth motion in instruments such as the zoetrope.
The more frames there are the slower the animation will be but the less frames there is then the quicker the animation will be and if you want detail in your animation then you add more frames to show more movement but if you wanted to do a really quick animation then you would add less frames but you animation will not be as detailed as you would want it to be and this means that the animation will be short lived because people don't pay attention to short animations.
In this animation,it show that a lady walks in and a man walks after to tell her that he loves her and he also walks in after her to propose .Then he realises that he finds her unattractive because she is transgender.Then a man walks in to sort out the situation because the man feels that you should not disrespect a lady in that way.The lady slaps the man that tries to sort out the situation because she feels that his presence was not needed then the man that proposed says goodbye because his feelings are hurt and believes that he does not deserve this treatment and then the animation ends.
Terry Gilliam was born on 22nd November 1940 and he is from Minneapolis, Minnesota,
United States. He is an Actor,Animator,Comedian,Director,Producer and screenwriter. Terry Gilliam's father was a travelling salesman for Folgers before becoming a carpenter and soon after they moved to Medicine Lake ,Minnesota. Then the family moved to Los Angeles in 1952.
4 Academy Awards nominations Best Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup
Gilliam attended Birmingham High School where he was class president and senior prom king. He was voted "Most Likely to Succeed", and achieved straight A's. During high school, he began to avidly read Mad magazine, then edited by Harvey Kurtzman, which would later influence Gilliam's work.
Gilliam started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist. One of his early photographic strips for Help! featured future Python cast member John Cleese. When Help! folded, Gilliam went to Europe, jokingly announcing in the very last issue that he was "being transferred to the European branch" of the magazine,which, of course, did not exist. Moving to England, he animated sequences for the children's series Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.
Terry Gilliam is famous for many animations such as Monty Python and The miracle of
flight and Terry Gilliam's trademarks are things like detachable jaws ,moving limbs and a
foot stomp and Terry Gilliam uses this to move to a different scene with using a basic
transition to keep to attention of the audience. He uses these types of movement and
transitions to show his childlike taste in comedy and back then it was easy to use childlike
comedy to make an audience laugh because back then childlike comedy was not overused
I like that Terry Gilliam uses the foot stomp rather than a basic animation and this is unique and this keeps the audience engaged and I don't recall seeing anyone else using this technique being used by any other animators. The second thing that I liked about this animation is that it is really creative and
nowadays all the animators does the same thing and this just make it boring because everyone else is using the basic transitions and once something gets repetitive, people start to lose interest the content that's being put out and then the audience decides to go to another animator or just decided to leave animation. The thing that I dislike about Terry Gilliam's animations is that he uses childish comedy and the reason why I dislike this part of Terry Gilliam's animations is because not everyone has a taste for childish comedy and I believe that when he uses childish comedy he overuses the option to use childish comedy.
In conclusion I believe that Terry Gilliam's animations are very relevant because his methods of cut out animation is still used today and this means that Gilliam has made an impact on many animators and I believe that future animator will be inspired by Terry Gilliam's animations. As time goes by I believe that future animators will be inspired but I believe cut out animation is starting to die out and to this present day we have proof that cut out animation is starting to die out.
Tim Burton was born on August 25th 1958 and he is from Burbank,California,United States and his occupations are that he is a Director, producer, writer and artist. Tim Burton is famous for many animations such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride and Tim Burtons trademarks are using flash backs, the monster. Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions' animation department, which offered Burton an animator's apprenticeship at the studio. He worked as an animator, storyboard artist and concept artist on films such as The Fox and the \
Hound (1981), The Black Cauldron and Tron. His concept art never made it into the finished films.
He uses the flash back to show the pain of the character and this is to make the audience sympathise with the character and what this does to engage the audience to make them want to watch more and hope for the story to unravel more.
I like how Tim Burton uses odd shapes for the charters body parts because its not like everybody else how they all stay normal and in my opinion this is unique and nowadays people are starting to use this method to bring out the good in their animations and make their animation unique .I like the way he uses a dark background to that he can show that its a dark time or that the scene has a double meaning. The thing that I dislike about this animation is that the movement of the camera is very slow and this would make it very distracting to the audience because they would want to see a smooth flow when they are watching because many people want to see what's going on straight away but moving the camera really slow make the audience get annoyed.
In conclusion I believe that Tim Burton is relevant because he is in todays animation scene and he is influencing many animators to follow in his steps because i have seen his techniques in many animations and this is very clear that these techniques will be used in the future and this is because they are seen all over todays animation scene.
Zoetrope: The Zoetrope was invented by William Horner in 1834
and the Zoetrope is a device that is used for animation and it works by the
barrel spinning and it creates an illusion and an illusion is created by a
quick rapid motion of the barrel spinning. The zoetrope has a cylinder with slits cut
vertically in the sides so that you can see the animation and this device has
limited space so only a couple of people can see it. The disadvantage that this
device has is that it can be seen by a limited amount of people at a time and
this means that you would have to take turns viewing the animation. Another
disadvantage that the zoetrope has is that the animation can’t last for long because
the animation is on a short strip so the animation will be short and will be
constantly repeating itself.An advantage of this device is that the strip that
it uses is easily changeable and this means that you can put other strips in.
Zoopraxinoscope: The Zoopraxinoscope was invented by Eadward
Muybridge in 1878 and the zoopraxinoscope is considered to be the first movie
projector .The zoopraxinoscope projected images from rotating glass disks in
rapid succession to give the impression of motion. The stop-motion images were
initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes.An disadvantage of this device
is that you have to paint your story onto glass and this is a time consuming
method of animation and this means that it takes longer to put content out for
people to see. An advantage of this device is that it can run long animation
clips unlike the zoetrope and this makes it better because you will be able to see
a more developed story.
The Cinematograph was invented by Lumiere Brothers
.
Cinematographe: The Cinematographe produced a sharper projected image than had been seen
before due to its design, in which a kind of fork held the film frame behind
the lens in place using the perforations in the sides of the film strip.The
advantage of this device is that you can see a developed story because you are
not limited on film strips so the audience can see all the things that were packed
into the story unlike the zoetrope.Another advantage to this device is that it
uses film strips and not painted glass so this method is not as time consuming
as a zoopraxinoscope.
The rotograph
was invented by Max Fleischer and rotoscoping is an animation technique in
which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live action and
animated films.
Rotograph: A rotograph was mostly used in cartoons and even to this day
rotoscoping is used and rotoscoping is used to capture real life motion frame
by frame.The advantage of this device is that you can capture real life frames
to make the animation more real life form and this adds detail to the animation
because you can control what you want to happen such as if you want a horse to
run you would capture what movement of the horse you want and you have more freedom
using real life objects.
Sound in Animation: Steamboat
Willie was the first animation to have sound in the background and when
steamboat the animation was half finished the animation screened to test the audiences’
reaction. Sound was first used with animation in 1928 with a
live orchestra and this was good because the sound truly brought the
animation to life. The advantage of having sound in animation is it keeps the
audience engaged and it adds more of a story to an animation and sound can bring
out emotions better than just looking at a plain animation.
Computer –aided design (CAD): Computer –aided
design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to aid in the creation,
modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. The advantages of using
CAD in animation is that it is fast, easy creation and the software is
developed for the designer /engineer, and does not require and animator to use
the software.
Computer animation,
or CGI animation, is the process used for generating animated images by using
computer graphics. The more general term is computer-generated imagery
encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images while computer animation only
refers to moving images. The advantages of CGI is filmmakers are able to create
amazing effects that would cost too much to produce physically. A disadvantage
of using CGI animation is that actors has to act against the green screen.
My cut out animation is made up of many images
that were cut out from magazines and newspapers.
First I found a metro newspaper and magazines
such as OK and Maplin and many others. I got an iMac computer
and a Logitech webcam so that I can do the project using iStopmotion
and what this software does is capture frames to create a smooth motion.
After I finished using iStopmotion, I decided to edit my
project using Final Cut Pro and after I was finished editing, I rendered
it, then I uploaded to YouTube.
Three examples of famous cut out animations are
Terry Gilliam's The Miracle of Flight, Angela Anaconda and Blues Clues.
Created by Terry Gilliam
Created by Sue Rose and Joanna Ferrone
Created by Traci Paige Johnson,Todd.A Kessler and Angela Santomero
Terry Gilliam's animations are very comedic but in
a childish way because he uses inappropriate body parts to make people laugh.
Terry Gilliam uses the foot squash, moving limbs. Disconnected jaw are all
trademarks of Terry Gilliam and he uses these techniques as a
transition to move to the next scene or to introduce a new part of a
segment.
In my animation a lady walks into the screen then a man follows, the man
proposed to the lady but he later on finds her unattractive so on the screen
the lady's head changes to man’s head. Then a person that also likes the lady
comes in the screen then the lady slaps the man out the screen because the lady
does not like the guy and then the animation ends.
The three strengths that my animation have is that it has music that is
synced to the action and this is the first strength. The second strength that
my animation has is that it has character that has moving limbs. The third
strength that my animation has is that it has a character that has a detachable
jaw and when the jaw is moving the character is speaking.
The thing that I would do differently next time is as soon after I finish my
cut outs I will make sure that I go straight to editing and not go to find
sound effects first because throughout the project I changed my mind a lot and
I kept adding things in last minutes and this can lead to a decrease in the
quality of my cut out animation. The next time that I do a cut out animation I
will make sure that I will add in dialogue and this will improve my cut out
animation because it will be more engaging to my audience. The next thing that
I can do to improve my animation is that I can add in more frames to make
my animation smoother and this will improve my animation because it would look
more slick and professional. The last thing I could do to improve my animation
is to add in a music bed and this will be better to add in rather to just
listen to silence in the background
A flip book or flick book is a book with a bunch of pictures that change gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change.
Step 1:Get something you can draw on. Suggested:Sticky notes
Step 2:Get a pen/pencil. Suggested:Pencil
Step 3:Think of an idea.
Step 4:Go to the last page.
Step 5:Start drawing your idea on the last page.
Step 6:When drawing the next page,slightly draw in a different location.
Step 7:Stop drawing when you want to stop.
Step 8:Flip all the images you've drawn to see an animation.
Zoetropes is another word for a little cinema.It was the earliest animation device that was invented by a British mathematician called William George Horner in 1834.A Zeotrope was originally called "daedalum" meaning the wheel of the devil.The zoetrope was very special because in 1834 it was rare to see animation and this is why the zoetrope was called "daedalum".A zoetrope is a drum with slits in it and it works by the drum rotating
The strengths of zoetropes are that because of its design it can be viewed by many people because it is round so people can gather around.But a con about the zoetrope is that it cant be viewed my a mass amount of people and that means you would have to take turns to see what animation is being shown by the rotation of the zoetrope.
