mark making on flim

With digital editing tools, stop-action animation (think Wallace and Gromit, or Tim Burton) has become more forgiving to make and therefore more new artists are trying their hand at it, making stop-action film more common in commercials, shorts and MTV-ish channels. But it's really difficult to make a decent flexible figure for stop-action that will not move unless you want it to, but will move exactly as you want it to when you do, and even more challenging to make one that looks alive. I know I've tried. There's really no other way to do this; you have to make a special armature figure. I can't imagine there are more than five readers of Cool Tools interested in how to make a really good latex puppet for use in animated videos and films. But for you five, here's some gold: an all-you-need-to-know step-by-step DVD from a gal (Kathi Zung) in New York City who's perhaps the only professional animated latex puppet maker in the galaxy. She does everything in her loft kitchen, and is very eager to tell you what she has learned. It's as thorough a workshop course as I've seen, with no detail or potential problem unattended.

http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/filmmakers/making.html

cell animation

The Simpsons have always offered both limited edition and original production cels to fans who are looking to capture a piece of history from television's longest running sitcom and hang it right on their own wall ! The holy grail of Simpsons merchandise is being the proud owner of an official cel used in the creation of the show. These cels have been increasing in price every year since the animated sitcom began and will continue to be sought after when the show has come to an end. This site is your ultimate guide to help you learn about The Simpsons animation cels, look at my collection, and find links to the best places available for purchasing Simpsons cels. I have been collecting Original Production Simpsons Cels for over 8 years now and would like to share my knowledge with anyone who has ever dreamed of owning a cel. I hope that this site will help answer all of your questions and start you on your way to collecting the greatest piece of Simpsons merchandise that you can ever own.

http://www.animationsensations.com/

cut-out animation

Cut-out animation is one of the oldest forms of animation and in pre computer days, probably the easiest to create. As its name implies, cut-out animation involves moving cut-out shapes in small steps and taking a picture at each stage, this is a lot less work than having to draw every single frame of the animation.

http://www.aifweb.com/animation/cutout_anim/cutout_animation.html

index cards

an index card is a small card that your right things on in order


http://www.landmark-project.com/evaluation/dic1.php

collage

a collage is a belending of colors mixed together

http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

mortor drive

History - This was used by Pearce Studios Ltd from the mid-60's. All the Hitch-Hiker animated graphics was shot on it. It achieved as many as 26 multiple passes without drift. In 1983 it was adapted for computer control and the Max Headroom 3D wireframe was shot direct from an aircraft instrumentation display frame-by-frame onto 35 mm - again using multiple passes (one for each colour).

http://www.motorcontrol.com/

drawing

After learning how to create characters from basic shapes, determining their height and body details, creating turnarounds and still shots of their movements and finally practicing enough to keep the figures "on model", it is time to begin animating! Animation usually uses 30 frames per second, and there are infinite numbers of ways to move your characters within this time-frame. A basic movement is a "walk-cycle", as you can see above with Cornfed. This walk-cycle is 10 frames long, and can be repeated as many times as necessary to give the illusion of continuous movement.

http://www.gpsdrawing.com/

movement

movement is when you move your body in another posision

http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/character_animation/principles/lasseter_s94.htm

sequential photographs

This grouping was very simple, all shot from the same distance and same lens. The moment is great, very classic.

http://www.shortcourses.com/bookstore/olympus/book_olympus2000.htm

photography

Digital photography is photography done using a digital camera. Sometimes it is called digital imaging. A digital camera has a lens, aperture, and shutter. The picture the lens makes is recorded by a light-sensitive electronic sensor. A digital camera does not use photographic film to record a picture. Digital photographs are stored in a computer but paper prints can also be made from digital pictures. Digital cameras can also be expensive to keep. To have your pictures printed at home the same way commercial prints are made, you need a special kind of printer and paper.

http://www.bjphoto.co.uk/

time lapse

Digital timelapse footage adds beauty and value to your production, whether commercial, corporate, documentary or drama. I have developed solutions for all different types of shooting: from ten-minute to ten-year long projects. My advanced knowledge of the post-production process ensures I create material that fits well with your project both aesthetically and technically.


http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1034&message=7537815

filmstrip

a filmstrip is band of tape with pictures on it that will run through a machine and project it on a screen

http://cagefactor.com/photos/antbully.html

dope sheet

The dope sheet uses a timeline to display skeleton keyframes. The top row of the timeline shows frame numbers.

http://www.pixelfu.com/MotionStudio/Help/DopeSheet.html

animatic

Animatics is the pioneer and recognized leader of integrated motion control. The SmartMotor™ is an integrated motor by Animatics. Designed by the industry leader, the Smart Motor is highly integrated control and is just one of the innovative motion control products by Animatics.

http://www.animatic.com/flash.html

flip book

A flip book is a book with a series of pictures that vary 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. Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but may also be geared towards adults and employ a series of photographs rather than drawings. Flip books are not always separate books, but may appear as an added feature in ordinary books or magazines, often in the page corners. Software packages and websites are also available that convert digital video files into custom-made flip books.


www.fabrica.it/flipbook

film special effects

Special effects (or SFX) are used in the film and entertainment industry to create effects that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as travel to other star systems. They are also used when creating the effect by normal means is prohibitively expensive, such as an enormous explosion. They are also used to enhance normal visual effects.


www.cinemateca.org/movies/special_effects.htm

animation

Animation is the illusion of motion created by the consecutive display of images of static elements. In film and video production, this refers to techniques by which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually. These frames may be generated by computers, or by photographing a drawn or painted image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a special animation camera. When the frames are strung together and the resulting film is viewed, there is an illusion of continuous movement due to the phenomenon known as persistence of vision. Generating such a film tends to be very labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the process.

www.animationfactory.com

advertising

Advertising is a way to get people to know about things, like things that are sold, or ideas. People and companies often pay for advertising. Media providers, like television networks and webpages sell advertising. The purpose of Advertising is to make the target group of people aware of some product, idea, or company

http://www.adassoc.org.uk/

film makers

film makeing is a big part in the media business film makers such as steven spielberg he is maybe the best in the world he is a successful man and he is a billonaire and his new movie munich seems to be a big hit

www.spielbergfilms.com/

nick park

nick park was born in preston lancashire in the usa he was the founder of wallice and gromet he made his frist animation when he was 13 and since from ther he was one of the best animators in the world wallice and gromet is a golbal production casterd around the word. wallice and gromet has one alot of awards and they have recently made a new movie wallice and gromet the curse of the wear rabbet in 1997 nick park was awarded a CBE Following on from a deal with DreamWorks, Aardmen .

shadow pupets

Shadow puppets as entertainment go back to the 18th century in Europe and America. In the Orient, they go back even further. Professional shadow puppeteers used multi-jointed figures to create some very fancy characters, but even simple stick figures can be impressive, when accompanied by sound effects, clever dia-logue and voices, and creative movement.

www.osv.org/kids/crafts2.htm

pupetry

pupetry is very good for kids it makes them lafe and i think they like it
in some places kids can go and watch puppet shows for fun.

www.sagecraft.com/puppetry

lumiere brothers

Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895. The showing of approximately ten short films lasting only twenty minutes in total was held in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris and would be the very first public demonstration of their device they called the Cinematograph which effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one.

www.holonet.khm.de/visual_alchemy/lumiere.html

Edison

The concept of moving images as entertainment was not a new one by the latter part of the 19th century. Magic lanterns and other devices had been employed in popular entertainment for generations. Magic lanterns used glass slides with images which were projected. The use of levers and other contrivances made these images "move".

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist.html

edward muybridge

On June 15, 1878, a clear and sunny day in Palo Alto, California, amid a gathering of art and sports journalists, Eadweard Muybridge photographed the first successful serial images of fast motion.
The subject of these photographs was the trotting horse, Abe Edgington, harnessed to a sulky. The horse was owned by railroad builder and former governor, Leland Stanford. Proven was Stanford's theory that during a horse's running stride, there is a moment of suspension where no hooves are touching the ground.

http://photo.ucr.edu/photographers/muybridge/

emile reynaud

Emile Reynaud, inventor, artist and showman, devised the important Praxinoscope optical toy, and was the first to show cartoon 'films' on a public screen. Reynaud's father was an horologist and medal engraver, and the Reynaud home was full of mysterious objects to fascinate the young Charles-Emile. His mother was an accomplished water-colourist. At fourteen, already knowledgeable in literary and scientific matters, Emile was apprenticed to a precision engineer in Paris, and later studied with the sculptor-photographer, Adam Salomon. Soon he was preparing lantern slides, photographic and hand-drawn, for the audiovisual lectures arranged by the Abbé Moigno, becoming very experienced in image projection.

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/theatopt1.htm

william horner

The zoetrope was invented in 1834 by William Horner, who originally called it a Daedalum ("wheel of the Devil"). It was based on Plateau's phenakistoscope, but was more convenient since it did not require a viewing mirror and allowed more than one person to use it at the same time. Horner's invention strangely became forgotten for nearly thirty years until 1867, when it became patented in England by M. Bradley, and in America by William F. Lincoln. Lincoln renamed the Daedalum, giving it the name of "zoetrope," or "wheel of li

http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit10.htm

joseph plateau

In 1832, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope ("spindle viewer"). It was also invented independently in the same year by Simon von Stampfer of Vienna, Austria, who called his invention a stroboscope. Plateau's inspiration had come primarily from the work of Michael Faraday and Peter Mark Roget (the compiler of Roget's Thesaurus). Faraday had invented a device he called "Michael Faraday's Wheel," that consisted of two discs that spun in opposite directions from each other. From this, Plateau took another step, adapting Faraday's wheel into a toy he later named the phenakistoscope

http://www.mhsgent.ugent.be/eng-plat1.html

NEMO

finding nemo was a movie when it was out and still good now

http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/nemo/

futurama

futurama is a space version of the simpsons and it is a cool animation

http://www.gotfuturama.com/