Heros of Animation:Then and Now

Heroes of Animation: Then and Now

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.

Awards

• Time Bandits (1981)
  • 5 Saturn Awards nominations Best International Film, Best Director, Best Writing, Best Supporting Actor (Craig Warnock), Best Special Effects
• Brazil (1985)
  • 2 Academy Awards nominations Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
  • 3 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Film, director, and Screenplay
  • 2 BAFTA Awards Best Production Design, Best Special Visual Effects
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
• 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.