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picture animation

Animation to the present day

I feel that animation has changed very quickly throughout up to the 21st century, the first thing we had before they invented the phenakistoscope in 1893 where you spun a disc and saw the images move on the inside, was shadow puppetry where a cut out image against light would amuse people.

When we had the technology and the first Television appeared everything appeared in black and white and so animation grew even more.

Walt Disney started making moving animations for the kids and so Mickey Mouse and friends were born and started it's first animation 'Plane Crazy' where Mickey Mouse starred in his first cartoon with his partner Minnie Mouse on May 15th 1928 but in those days they were silent films because we didn't have the technology to have sound effects and computer made music so piano music in the background was used in that time.

Finally in 1935 they had the technology to have sound in the cartoons so the year of silent films and animation died, Disney's first sound animation was 'Steamboat Willie'.

The techniques used in animations changed dramatically on December 17th 1953 when the first working color television was invented so now animations were seen in full color and full sound. Disney's first color animation was 'Snow White' which became Disney's first movie.

Then in 1973 Computer Generated Imagery was born bringing us animations and high detailed characters built from inside a computer and gave us films such as 'Toy Story' & 'Avatar'.

I feel CGI animation still has a long way to go until we know it so well that we can't tell if a CGI human is a real person or not.

pictures to music

put pictures to music today nothing special :/

types of animation

A video in 3 parts about the history of drawn animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBeQfJ7MBU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuzGsXzbG0M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuHnJozhYYM

Drawn animation is where different drawings are put together one by one and put together in a moving film it takes a lot of time and dedication. Companies such as Disney use drawn animation their first was 'steamboat mickey'
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Cut animation is the same only it's cut outs of different drawings placed in different places and taken photo's of for every shot so the sections of paper move and are animated.

cut out animation example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSPIDbcaQus

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Clay Animation, a.k.a: Claymation

Clay animation is where they use plastercine or clay and move parts of the figure taking pictures of every bit they change and make an animation with it, this can take a lot of time. The most commonly known company who use claymation in most of their work is Aardman.


example : Aardman's Creature Comforts: The Sea in two parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W78I160pKJE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY3yMn6KwTM

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Computer Animation

Computer animation is a model in the computer tweaked and moved with different controls, films in computer graphics such as newly released Ice Age 3 take a lot of time to make sometimes in the space of a few month or a year depending on how hard the animators work, and now since HD and Blu Ray it takes computer graphics and gaming to a whole new level.

Example of computer animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ez331abLe4
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Example of CGI in games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a12e3iKzqlw

layout editing sites

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The layout editing sites ive found are iGoogle & the bbc homepage, with both sites you can add waether tabs time tabs and a tab to show you the phases of the moon. Since many people use the bbc website when you move things it tends to freeze and crash but igoogle is easier to use and doesn't crash and is easier to understand, with the bbc website it is hard to follow so all in all I vote iGoogle to be the best layout editing site.

text sharing sites

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The two text sharing site Iam going to talk about is Blogger and LiveJournal, The first one Livejournal is easy to understand and you can keep track of other friends journals and you can customize your journals with your own mood pictures or use the mood pictures that are currently there, it is also easy to change it's theme and edit anything. The second one is Blogger and it's not o easy to understand and at times you can regularly make mistakes and you have absolutely no idea how to follow friends blogs, the only fun bit of blogger is the small feeding fish game and ability to show twitter and you tube on the side bar so all in all I think LiveJournal is the best text sharing site.