Animation Techniques

Drawn Animation
These are made by taking a drawn image and replacing it with another in a long sequance. The drawings are slightly diffrent each time it is replaced, these drawings are put together in a row and and are shown very quickly producing a very effective animation.

Good Point
It Looks Great!
Bad Point
It takes a very long time to film from start to finish and is expencive needing many animators to compleat the work!

Examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-eI2WlKhv0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184


Cut-out Animation
This is done using cut out shapes and figures witch get moved around or replaced with other cut-outs. Cut-outs can be laid on drawings witch can be used as backrounds, Flat objects can be used in your animations.

Good Point
It is very quick and easy to do!
Bad Point
It is difficult to have more than one or two cut-outs moving at the same time. cut-out animation appears to move in a very stiff and awkward way.

Examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQ0xGntRHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKhBztN4GvQ

Model Animation Or Stop Motion Animation
This can be made by filming puppets or any form of 3D models, You could use materials such as plasticne, clay or wire or anything that can be bent and made into diffrent shapes. the models are put in position and filmed then are moved slightly and filmed again, the images are all put together and made move quickly to give the impression of your models moving.

Good Points
Models can be used over and over again and copies made of them to shoot diffrent scenes at the same time so that the filming takes less time!
Bad Points
This type of animation needs a lot of time and hard work!

Examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaYktLq3yDw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlqQSMifqk

Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)
3D images can be scaned into the computer using digital photography or made within the computer itself, you can use clay models to make people and sets and once scanned into the computer as wire frame models whick are gradually bulit up into a three dimensional image witch can eventually be made into a film.
Good Point
Computers are becoming Cheaper and easier to use than traditional animation.

Examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2gPZRsz0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGIoRUlzE2Q

AniBoom review

aniboom is a video sharing website, used for mainly uploading short animation films.
Once you sign up you can create your own portfolio of your animations and search other peoples movies.. there is a sections for top rated,most viewed and most recent videos. you can also search other peoples portfolios. they have a few compitions running were you can win things like the chance to work with fox on your animation.
this seems like a great website to share videos on animation with the world.

igoogle review

This is a good website to use because it is simple and easy to use.
You can create your own effective looking homepage in 30 seconds using the simple features such as Intrests, Themes and Choosing You Location. Once you have choose these all you have to do is click see your homepage. Then from there you can move you sections around to suit yourself. It also has the google search bar at the the top so all in all i think this is an easy and good website to use.

27/11/09

Today In Robs Class We Made Our Own Music Videos.. We Used A Song And Put Still Images That Were Related To The Song And The Lyrics

time to actually update this thing!

ok... so its like 1:30am
and im really bored
so i thought i would just randomly update my blog
I have decided to write about what we done yesterday in ewans class!

24.11.09
Today..
we got our brief for our second project...ANIMATION (exciting stuff)
this told us that we are using show racism the red card... witch is an anti racist charity as the theme of our animation.
we were told that we were going to have to plan,film and edit and animation to be broadcast in the T4 slot on channel 4 on sunday mornings.
we were to choose one of the following key themes

• Islamaphobia
• Welcoming new people to britain
• Asylum seeker/ Migrant mythbusting
• Dealing With Racism

Our group witch is made up of

David http://fvcdc.blogspot.com/

Elizabeth http://vampdiarys.blogspot.com/

Reece http://reecemilne.blogspot.com/

Alexandra http://aquadragonlarsen.blogspot.com/

Laura http://lauraabloggerrr.blogspot.com/

and Me!!!!!!

choose to use dealing with racism as our theme :)!!

anyway.. back to the animation itself. on the brief it also told us our animation has to be about 20-30 seconds long. But we have also to make a 10 second teaser aswell

the advert is to include the show racism the red card slogan and have music that is appropriate to our audience.

we have not to use any copyrighted material in our animation (don't wanna be sued XD)

im really proud of how my first atempt at animation worked out

Makes Me Giggle A Little (so easily amused)

my flip book :D

How Funky Is Ma Wee Dude XD

bbc.co.uk review

This website is good because you can change the layout and the content to suit your own personal needs....
You can remove content such as BBC i player or the news by a simple click of a button.
But you can also add things such as weather and radio witch is also easy to do.
There is a range of colours you can choose from to be the background of your page,
and there is a tool to set your location,
overall this is a simple, easy and effective page in witch you can edit the content and is great because there is a reset button to make the page the way it was to start with!!

29/09/09

Today We Are Going To Learn About HTML!!!

This should be fun. HEHE

1. This is a link to Google.
   
   
2. Click for class blogs.
   

Web Search Engines 17/09/2009

These Are 4 Web Search Engines!! They Are Used To "browse" the internet :)

Today I done a little reserch on my project
YMTS's production of the musical RENT
I learned ALOT about the musical itself and abit about YMTS and the venue in witch the prduction is being shown :)

Youtube Review!!!!

Youtube is a video sharing website
It alows you to share your own videos and also view other peoples videos
you can find almost any video of anything from music videos.... to funny videos of people doing crazy random things.
you can comment on most videos and rate them... it is also easy to share your videos on facebook, myspace and other social networking sites
it is simple to search using the search bar
it is easy to upload videos there are 3 methods of uploading videos
1) straight from webcam
2) from your files
3) from your mobile phone
you can make your own acount and add as many videos you want to your favourites... make play lists subscripe to other peoples videos so you can see all there new videos you can send people messages and mail and video's you find
the best thing about youtube is its free
:)

What I Learned Today!! 08/09/2009

Today I learned about video sharing websites!
I looked at 2 different websites and compared them!

Then we were given our first projects and done a little reserch on our projects!
we decided in our groups who would be doing witch tasks
i am doing the website design :)

What I Learned Today

01/09/09


today i learned....
How To Use IWeb To Create Websites

We Made A Review Of Flickr And A Review Of Picasa

Picasa review

Picasa is a photo sharing website set up by google
It these features
Be Creative
make collages, add photo text and make slideshows
Focus On People
tag people in your photographs
Edit To Perfection
remove red eye, fix colour and lightinging
Search And Explore
search for images by a certain member or of a certain thing
Sharing Made Simple
puplish photo's online make albums to share with friends and family
ITS FREE!

Flickr Review

Flickr is a photo sharing website

With the follow features
Uploading
you can upload via the website
or if not near a computer you can email your picture using your mobile phone!
Editing
removing red eye from photo's, cropping pictures and using diffrent effects
Organizing
you can organize photo's into diffrent types of albums and collections!
Sharing
you can share your images with other flickr users
Maps
use to show where you took the photo
Make Stuff
make things including dvd's, cards and postage stamps
Keep In Touch
you can add family and friends to your flickr acount to share photographs

Hiyyah
:D