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DIY Animation Film »
Categories: DIY Animation, Production Zone, Moving Image Production, Genres & Case Studies, Animation
Animation - Making Your Own Film Anyone aspiring to be taken seriously as an animator would be well advised to first learn how to draw and then to learn the animation basics. No matter if you are interested in doing 3d computer animation or stylised 2d drawings if you can’t draw you are at a disadvantage. Drawing is best learned from doing life drawing lessons, from studying other people’s work who can draw and from just practising. Leaning to draw will teach you things like anatomy,…
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Persepolis Case Study »
Categories: 1990 Onwards, Drama, GCSE, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Animation, Key Concepts
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Exploring Film Outside Hollywood: Persepolis (2007) Introduction and Synopsis Persepolis (2007) is based on a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi’s called The Complete Persepolis and is a coming-of-age memoir that tells of the author’s experiences growing up during and in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Persepolis was also adapted into a 2007 animated film of the same name, written and directed by Satrapi along with Vincent Paronnaud. …
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Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers Case Study »
Categories: CCEA, 1990 Onwards, British Film, Crime, Comedy, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Animation, Independent
Synopsis It is Gromit’s birthday and he is feeling particularly ignored by Wallace. When the post arrives, he eagerly seeks it out but find a rather tacky and unoriginal card ‘To a dear dog’ from Wallace and nothing else. Wallace presses his alarm for breakfast and reminds Gromit that it is his turn for breakfast, so Gromit obliges. Wallace finally gives Gromit his presents, which bemuse him - a collar and lead (so he can finally look like he “belongs to someone?) and techno-trousers…
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The Incredibles Case Study »
Categories: 1990 Onwards, Action, Adventure, GCSE, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Superhero, Analysis, Animation, Action Adventure
Paper 1 | Superhero Films Case Study | The Incredibles Synopsis In the beginning of The Incredibles, superheroes are celebrated by the city folk; they are celebrities, interviewed on television. Mr Incredible is able to prevent a number of crimes: rescuing a cat from a tree; preventing a heist; saving a man trying to commit suicide; capturing a thief; preventing a train crash; and a bank robbery - even on the way to his wedding to Elastigirl. During his missions, a young fan of Mr Incredible,…
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Spirited Away Case Study »
Categories: 1990 Onwards, Adventure, World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Animation
Paper 2 | Non-Hollywood Films Case Study | Spirited Away Synopsis Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) follows the story of a young girl, Chihiro as she crosses the border between the human world and the spirit world. En-route to their new home, Chihiro’s parents stop at (what they think) is a disused theme park site. Despite being abandoned, one stall has food; without question her parents greedily eat the food, but as night falls Chihiro is warned by a spirit, Haku to leave. As she…
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Animation Links »
Categories: DIY Animation, Animation Links, Production Zone, Moving Image Production, Genres & Case Studies, Animation
2D Animation Software Adobe AfterEffects [PC & Mac] Publisher: Adobe License: Free Trial Comments: Motion graphics and visual effects for film and media. Animator-9 3.6 [PC] Publisher: Key Technology License: Free Comments: Make animated GIFs from your digital camera. AniS 1.0 [PC] Publisher: Tom Whittaker License: Free Comments: Simple image manipulation for the web. Bauhaus Mirage [PC] Jumpwel [PC] Publisher: Phildes License: Free Comments: Basic object manipulator for use in HTML; uses…
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Animation 1990 Onwards »
Categories: 1990 Onwards, Genres & Case Studies, Animation
The Digital Era The 90’s Disney Boom While the British features stumbled in and out of the cinemas Disney stormed ahead with their animation revival which had began with Roger Rabbit. In the two decades since Walt Disney’s death their feature output had become decidedly patchy. Some high points had been ‘The Aristocats’ (1967) and ‘The Rescuers’ (1977) and by the time of ‘The Fox and the Hound’ (1979) the ‘Nine Old Men of Disney’, the original animators who had been the…
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Animation from 1970 - 1990 »
Categories: 1970-1990, Genres & Case Studies, Animation
The Fading Lightbox Terry Gilliam and Monty Python Gilliam was born in Minneapolis and studied political science before finding his way into being a writer and cartoonist. When work dried up in the USA he came to London, worked, or tried to work, at various animation studios (Bob Godfrey’s Movie Emporium turned him away for being ‘too good’!), then through John Cleese got some sketches on the children’s comedy ‘Do Not Adjust your Set’ (1967). Here he met other comedians who would…
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Animation from 1945 - 1970 »
Categories: 1945-1970, Genres & Case Studies, Animation
Post War Animation - The TV Age ‘Animaland’: David Hand and Gaumont British Animation Studios In 1945, David Hand, the director of Disney’s ‘Snow White’ was hired by the great British film producer J. Arthur Rank (more rhyming slang?) to come to Britain to set up a Disney type animation studio here. They chose not to locate in London or another of Britain’s bombed out cities, but in the picturesque Moor Hall in the village of Cookham-on-Thames, Berkshire. In its short existence the…
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Animation from 1928 - 1945 »
Categories: 1928-1945, Genres & Case Studies, Animation
The Rise Of Disney and The First Sound Cartoons In 1927 the first ‘talking’ motion picture was released, The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolsen, which helped to popularize sound in films. Many cinemas now fitted the sound technology to show the new films. Walt Disney In 1928 Walt Disney rushed out ‘Steamboat Wille’ the first widely distributed synchronised sound cartoon, ‘Steamboat Wille’ (synchronised or sync, means when the sound effects and talking are in time with the actions seen on…
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Animation from 1908 - 1928 »
Categories: 1908-1928, Genres & Case Studies, Animation
Windsor McCay and The Silent Animation Boom Windsor McCay In New York Windsor McCay was a successful newspaper cartoonist of the time, his most popular strip being ‘Little Nemo in Slumberland’, a brilliantly designed and illustrated full page colour comic strip. He spent four years turning this into a cartoon ‘Little Nemo’ (1911) which was met with much success and followed this with ‘Gertie the Dinosaur’ (1913) which became a sensation of the day. When McCay showed ‘Gertie the…
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Pre 1908 Animation - The Early Years »
Categories: Hot Entries, Pre-1908, Genres & Case Studies, Animation
The beginnings of animation can perhaps be traced back to a paper published by Peter Roget in 1824 for The British Royal Society called ‘The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects’. Following this came the invention of such devices as the phenakitstoscope (1831), the zoetrope (1834) and the praxinoscope (1892), all variations of the idea of sequence of images viewed on a rotating drum, although these were all somewhat preceded by a very basic zoetrope invented in ancient China…
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