On completion of this lesson you should be able to:

Identify a range of different animation

techniques

Describe how these have changed over time

Discuss techniques of contemporary

practice.

Different Styles of Animation

RECAP

There are THREE main styles of animation..

Can you remember what they are?

Different Styles of Animation

1)Traditional Hand Drawn Animation

2) Stop Motion Animation

3) Computer Generated Animation

Can you think of any examples?

History of Animation

How has animation changed over the years?

History of Animation - Timeline

History of Animation - Timeline

History of Animation - Timeline

1977 1995

History of Animation - Timeline

Animation - Techniques

Traditional hand Drawn Stop Motion Computer Generated

Animation - Techniques

Traditional hand Drawn

• FLIP BOOK

• FILMSTRIP

• DRAWING

• MARK MAKING ON

FILM

• CELL ANIMATION

• INDEX CARD

ANIMATION

Stop Motion

• TIME LAPSE

PHOTOGRAPHY

• SEQUENTIAL

PHOTOGRAPHS

• CUT OUT

ANIMATION

• COLLAGE

ANIMATION

• MOVEMENT

Computer Generated

• 3-D

• MANY METHODS

Animation - Techniques

Traditional hand Drawn

• FLIP BOOK

A flip book or flick 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

Animation - Techniques

Traditional hand Drawn

• FILMSTRIP

A "Filmstrip" is a graphic file format that

contains multiple images with the same size.

More accurately, it contains multiple frames of

an animation sequence. The Filmstrip file

format was introduced with Adobe Premiere

and it is supported by several other products by

Adobe (notably After Effects and Photoshop).

Filmstrip files usually have the extension .FLM

Animation - Techniques

Traditional hand Drawn

• DRAWING

Traditional animation, is an animation

technique where each frame is drawn by

hand. This is the oldest and most historic

form of animation

Animation - Techniques

Traditional hand Drawn

• MARK MAKING ON FILM

Drawn-on-film animation, also known as direct

animation or animation without camera, is an

animation technique where footage is produced by

creating the images directly on film stock, as opposed to

any other form of animation where the images or objects

are photographed frame by frame with an animation

camera.

Animation - Techniques

Traditional hand Drawn

• CELL ANIMATION

A cell, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which

objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn

animation. Used in the production of cartoons or

animated movies where each frame of the scene is

drawn by hand. A full-length feature film produced using

cell animation would often require a million or more

drawings to complete

Animation - Techniques

Traditional hand Drawn

• INDEX CARD ANIMATION

Similar to a flip book with drawings

made on index cards and then either

photographed or filmed ready to edit

into a short animation sequence.

Animation - Techniques

Stop Motion

• TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY

Describes a way of filming something in

which many photographs are taken over a

long period of time and are shown quickly in

a series so that a slow action (such as the

opening of a flower bud) appears to happen

quickly

Animation - Techniques

Stop Motion

• SEQUENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Sequential photography is a form of

animation or art that uses

photographic images arranged in

sequence for visual storytelling or to

convey information

Animation - Techniques

Stop Motion

• CUT OUT ANIMATION

This covers any form of animation where cut-out

shapes are moved around or replaced by other cut-

outs. Flat objects like buttons, matchsticks and

string can also be used in this form of animation.

Cut-outs can also be laid on top of drawings. It is

very quick and easy to do but difficult to have more

than one or two objects moving at the same time.

Cut-out animation can appear very stiff and

awkward.

Animation - Techniques

Stop Motion

• COLLAGE ANIMATION

Very similar to cut out animation but instead

of using characters you have created yourself

you collect images from other sources and

bring them together to make a ‘collage’.

(where artwork is made from a collection of

different forms)

Animation - Techniques

Stop Motion

• MOVEMENT

This is where the photographs or still images

are taken after movement has taken place of

objects.

Animation - Techniques

Computer Generated

• 3D

• 2D

• ANYTHING THAT IS DONE ON A COMPUTER

On completion of this lesson you should be able to:

Identify a range of different animation

techniques

Describe how these have changed over time

Discuss techniques of contemporary

practice.