Definition of animation
Animation is
a series of still images that give the illusion that they are moving, for
example Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry is
a very popular kids TV program which is animated. You can also get animation
flash games too. Some big name film studio companies like Pixar and Warner
Brothers make animated films. Toy Story was the first 3D cartoon made. Dragon
Ball is another animated game, it was made in 1984. Animation has been along
for hundreds of years, an example of this is a Victorian zoetrope.
Animation is made up of FPS (frames per second). These frames run and
give the illusion that the images are moving.
The
pioneers of animation
There are 4 main pioneers of animation. Walt Disney,
William Horner, Thomas Edisson and The Lumiere Brothers.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney is arguably the most famous pioneer of
animation; he created Disney Studios which made animated films, some of which
are world famous. Some old films he made are Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi. He was born in 1901 and died in 1966. There’s a
long-standing urban legend maintains that Disney was cryonically frozen, and
his frozen corpse stored beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at
Disneyland.
William Horner
William George Horner was a British mathematician. The zoetrope was invented in 1834 and
was originally called a Daedalum ("wheel of the Devil"). A zoetrope is
a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession. It was an
improvement on the phenkitascope. People liked this more and found it easier
too used. It made animation easier to be seen because it had small slits on the
side where the person could look inside and it would give a better effect than
a phenkikascope.
Thomas
Edison
Thomas Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was
an American inventor, who made the Phonograph. This was the
gramophone record was one of the dominant audio recording formats throughout
much of the 20th century. The phonograph at its peak was used massively
but cost a lot to have. He also invented the Kinetoscope, which is an early
motion picture exhibition device. It was originally made so it could be used
for one person to watch a film through a peep hole. It was made around 1988.
The Lumiere
Brothers
The Lumiere Brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean were
the first filmmakers ever, They were born in France but moved to Lyon where
they both attended ‘La Martiniere ‘, the largest technical school in Lyon. They
worked for their dad for a bit at his photographic firm. Louis was a physicist
and Auguste as was the manager. Once their farther retired they began to make ‘
moving pictures ‘.The
Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in
1895, then a public screening of films in December the same year. Their first
film they made was ‘Sortie des Usines Lumiere a Lyon ‘, this was played at ‘
Salon Indien du Grand Café ‘ which is in Paris.
Flash
I
got this to work by adding two key frames, one at number one, one at number 20,
and inbertween those two numbers you add a shape tween. Once I did that, I
clicked the text tool and wrote a number ‘1’ on the frame one. Then clicked
frame twenty and put number 2. You then have to click on both numbers and press
CTRL + B, this breaks the numbers down so they can morph. Now when I run the
animation the number 1 changes to the number 2 as it moves across the timeline.
The animation is similar to the first one, I added two
key frames, one at 1, one at 10, but instead I added a motion tween and not a
shape tween, I then clicked on 1, drew a circle in the top left corner, right
clicked and converted to a shape, then clicked on 10, moved the ball to the
opposite corner and then ran the animation. The circle bounced from top right
to bottom left to give the impression its bouncing.
This image below shows the animation timeline of my mask
that I created. To make the mask I imported an image to the stage, then made a
new layer. On the new layer I drew an oval in the middle of the stage. I then
right clicked on the oval and pressed ‘mask’. Then the layers change and
indicate which layer is masked. Then I created a frame at frame 20 on the masked
layer. Then I added a Class Tween on the masking layer timeline. I then clicked
on 1 and moved the oval to the left. Now the oval goes across the screen shower
parts of the picture from the stage.
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