Lauren

This week I turned the wave length cycle practice we had to do into a girl with her hair flowing in the wind. I really enjoyed this task and my teacher gave me some really good tips so that I didn’t have to put in extra work

another animation principle is follow through which is similar to overlapping action which are also associated with another technique called drag but they are all described the same thing but in different ways. Follow through refers to the same parts of the body that continue to move after the body has stopped. For example, a character that jumps needs to follow through with their landing and if a character has extra skin, it can be treated as a separate entity with drag and follow through. Arms are also a good place to use follow through and overlapping action.

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best-known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed made in 1926. The first feature-length animation film and Papageno 1935. She studied at Charlottenburger Waldschule which was the first open-air school where she learned the German art of silhouette inspired by the Chinese art of paper cutting and silhouette puppetry. In 1918 she animated wooden rats and created the animated intertitles for Wegener's The Pied Piper of Hamelin. This got her admitted into Institute for Cultural Research, an experimental animation and short-film studio. She made six short films over the few years, and they were all produced by her husband. Working with a crew of five people, Reiniger made her silhouettes by hand photographing the animation frame by frame in a friend's garage. The process took her 5 years to complete.

Another animation principle is Straight ahead and pose to pose. Straight ahead is when you draw the first drawing, then the second drawing then the third etc. Animating as you go. The second method, Pose to Pose is where you draw the beginning and the end of each main pose and go back to fill the drawings in between. Pose to pose works out better because you have an idea of what the end is going to look like at the early stage so then you can work backwards.

Emil Cohl was a French cartoonist and animator and is often referred as "the father of the animated cartoon." He began his career as a caricaturist, cartoonist and writter in his 20s. In 1908 Cohl was hired as a scenarist and was here where Cohl made "Fantasmagoie" between February and May of 1907. Fantasmagoie is considered to be the first fully animated film ever made. To create the animation, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and traced the next drawing. He had about 700 drawings when he was finished. Cohl created the illusion that the characters were drawn on chalkboard and he achieved this by filming black lines on paper and printing them in negative

our task for week 3 was to make a wavelength cycle animation using TV paint. To develop it I'm going to use what I did as practice and turn it into a person with their hair flowing in the wind. One of the 12 animation principles used for this practice was overlapping action which is having body parts and appendages dragged behind the rest of the body and continues to move when the body stop. another example can be followed through which refers to the way parts of the body continue to move after the body has stopped.

An animator who used this in their work was Scottish- Canadian animator, director and producer Norman McLaren who was a pioneer and innovator in the film industry. His style of animation and filmmaking varied from abstract animation, Visual Music, Pixelation, graphical sounds and drawn on film animation.

Pas se Deux (made in 1968 and produced by the National Film Board of Canada) Is a black and white film of a simple ballet performance. The film was photographed on high contrast stock with step and repeat printing. Pas de Deux received 17 awards including the 1969 BAFTA award for the best animated film.

Caroline leaf is a Canadian American filmmaker, animator, director, and artist. She has made many short animations and her work has been recognised around the world. Her animated films are known for storytelling, emotional content and graphic style. Her art is tied to storytelling and to exploring unusual materials that she uses for her drawings and making movement. She started making animated films when she was a student at Radcliffe college in 1968. Her first film 'Sand or Peter and the Wolf' was made with a jar of beach sand and poured into a light box and made black and white silhouettes from it. She moved to Montreal at the invitation of The National Film Board of Canada, a publicly funded Canadian production centre which allowed filmmakers' considerable creative freedom and is famous for its animation films. She worked there as a staff animator and director until 1991

This week we had to develop out bouncing ball animations, so I decided to make a tennis ball bouncing through a basketball hoop and the reason why I used a tennis ball instead of a basketball is because I wanted it to be different and that basketballs don't have that much bounce as a tennis ball does.

Week 1 Bouncing Ball animation

Our task this week was to make an animation of a bouncing ball on TV paint. One of the 12 animation principles we had to include was squash and stretch, which is when you apply a contrasting change of shape from a squashed pose to a stretch pose. It gives personality to a character and it is as if the character is made from rubber.

During the 1930s, squash and stretch was exaggerated by Disney animators, but they had to maintain the overall volume of an object so that it did not appear to change volume as well as the shape.

An example of an animator who used this in his animation was rubber hose animator Max Fleisher. Born in Poland, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he co founded Fleischer studios along with his brother Dave Fleischer. He was famously known for his tv shows Popeye, Betty Boop and Koko the Clown. Betty Boop was his most successful cartoon. Her design was inspired by a popular singer Helen Kane. She was featured in 90 theatrical cartoons between 1930 and 1939.