The first animated film from India is considered to be Ek Anek Aur Ekta, a short traditionally animated short educational film released in 1974 from Doordarshan's Film Division. Doordarshan is a government run public television service in India. The film is presented as a fable meant to teach children the value of unity. After its success, more shorts were produced by Doordarshan. This was the first time that original animated films from India were broadcast on national television in the nation's official language, Hindi.
The first Indian animated television series is Ghayab Aaya, aired in 1986 and directed by Suddhasattwa Basu.
The first Indian 3D animated film was Roadside Romeo, which was a joint venture between Yash Raj Films and the Indian division of the Walt Disney Company. It was written and directed by Jugal Hansraj.
Monday 26 April 2010
Simon's Cat
I first heard about Simon Tofield on bbc news, he was in an interview regarding the animation below, when i saw it i thought it was fantastic so i decided to research who Simon Tofield was. Simon Tofieldis an English animator who has a great interest in British wildlife, painting, the great outdoors and of course cats. He has three cats - Hugh, Maisie and Jess. Simon draws all of the Simon's Cat films himself. This can require up to 25 drawings per second of animation. He uses Adobe Flash to animate his cartoons. Simon draws on an A4-size Wacom Intuos 3 pen and tablet. Simon works alongside Shrooty who is a talented sound designer who works on the films with Simon. He makes all the character sounds in the films himself, including the meows! Now that's good Foley work...
After watching the animation i related it with some principles. I defineatly thought it showed squash and stretch when the cat pulls his owners ear. I also noticed that weight was used when the cat was walking along the bed, you could obviously see the weight of the cat inprinted on the bed sheets. Another principle is anticipation when the cat flings the basball bat back ready to crack his owner on the end, all and all a very good animation.
First Colour Animation By Walt Disney
Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932. It was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color three-strip Technicolor process, after several years of two-color Technicolor films.
Flowers and Trees was already in production as a black and white cartoon before Walt Disney saw Herbert Kalmus' three-strip Technicolor tests. Deciding that Flowers and Trees would make a perfect test for the process, he had the black and white footage scrapped, and had the short redone in color. The color Flowers and Trees was a commercial and critical success, winning the first Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons.
As a result of the success of Flowers and Trees, all future Silly Symphonies cartoons were produced in three-strip Technicolor, and the added novelty of color helped to boost the series' previously disappointing returns. Disney's other cartoon series, the Mickey Mouse shorts, were deemed successful enough not to need the extra boost of color, and therefore remained in black-and-white until 1935's The Band Concert.
Flowers and Trees was already in production as a black and white cartoon before Walt Disney saw Herbert Kalmus' three-strip Technicolor tests. Deciding that Flowers and Trees would make a perfect test for the process, he had the black and white footage scrapped, and had the short redone in color. The color Flowers and Trees was a commercial and critical success, winning the first Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons.
As a result of the success of Flowers and Trees, all future Silly Symphonies cartoons were produced in three-strip Technicolor, and the added novelty of color helped to boost the series' previously disappointing returns. Disney's other cartoon series, the Mickey Mouse shorts, were deemed successful enough not to need the extra boost of color, and therefore remained in black-and-white until 1935's The Band Concert.
Disney Animations
Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie (1928).Steamboat Willie was first released on November 18, 1928. It was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks again served as the head animator, assisted by Johnny Cannon, Les Clark, Wilfred Jackson and Dick Lundy. This short was intended as a parody of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr., first released on May 12 of the same year. Although it was the third Mickey cartoon produced, it was the first to find a distributor, and thus has been cited as Mickey's debut. Willie featured changes to Mickey's appearance (in particular, simplifying his eyes to large dots) that established his look for later cartoons.
The cartoon was not the first cartoon to feature a soundtrack connected to the action. Fleischer Studios, headed by brothers Dave and Max Fleischer, had already released a number of sound cartoons using the DeForest system in the mid-1920s. However, these cartoons did not keep the sound synchronized throughout the film. For Willie, Disney had the sound recorded with a click track that kept the musicians on the beat. This precise timing is apparent during the "Turkey in the Straw" sequence, when Mickey's actions exactly match the accompanying instruments. Animation historians have long debated who had served as the composer for the film's original music. This role has been variously attributed to Wilfred Jackson, Carl Stalling and Bert Lewis, but identification remains uncertain. Walt Disney himself was voice actor for both Mickey and Minnie.
The cartoon was not the first cartoon to feature a soundtrack connected to the action. Fleischer Studios, headed by brothers Dave and Max Fleischer, had already released a number of sound cartoons using the DeForest system in the mid-1920s. However, these cartoons did not keep the sound synchronized throughout the film. For Willie, Disney had the sound recorded with a click track that kept the musicians on the beat. This precise timing is apparent during the "Turkey in the Straw" sequence, when Mickey's actions exactly match the accompanying instruments. Animation historians have long debated who had served as the composer for the film's original music. This role has been variously attributed to Wilfred Jackson, Carl Stalling and Bert Lewis, but identification remains uncertain. Walt Disney himself was voice actor for both Mickey and Minnie.
This is stated on you tube as the first animation of Walt Disney but it's actually the third, the first two were 'Plane crazy' and 'The Gallopin Gaucho' but these two did not have sound added to them. This was his third animation which had added sound which is probably why it's the most well known of Walt Disney's animations of Mickey Mouse.
For my Critical Perspective Essay i am looking into the practices and issues around the work of Walt Disney and amongst my research i found several animations which i just thought were superb and use the principles of animation we have been looking at in our Applied Design lessons.
Thursday 8 April 2010
Type
There is thousands of different types of font, choosing the right one is going to be tricky. I found a few examples but none of them seem to be what im looking for.
Different Typography
Knowing now exactly how i wanted to animate my piece i then had the difficult task of deciding what typography best suited by 'Twirl' animation. Obviously certain fonts would be totally unsuitable (i.e, Stencil)
Deciding on a suitable type would mean trying out and testing quite a few different types, and different sizes. For instance a twirly type but being overly sized would ruin the effect.
I found this video online and it shows a number of different types and what effect they have on the type of music or lyrics being played at that time.
Deciding on a suitable type would mean trying out and testing quite a few different types, and different sizes. For instance a twirly type but being overly sized would ruin the effect.
I found this video online and it shows a number of different types and what effect they have on the type of music or lyrics being played at that time.
Music added with image...
Thinking back to the music i chose to best describe the word 'Twirl', made me think of where i have heard it before. Remembering where it was featured in a disney production famously known as 'Fantasia' i cut down to the short piece of music i was interested and looked to see how Disney animated around the music. Looking deeply at the short animation i noticed how the little mushrooms were dancing and twirling to the music.
This gave me an idea for my piece. Having each individual letter almost dancing around eachother.
This gave me an idea for my piece. Having each individual letter almost dancing around eachother.
Nick Schrunk
Nick Schrunk is a fantastic grsphic/ motion designer. His piece, 'Concious' is fantastic becuase he is doing pretty much the same as what im trying to achieve, he manages to make the letters float almost and at the beginning act like rain but with words. I think this is a truly magical piece and is inspiration to me to make my Twirl word really twirl and give some sort of feeling out to the viewer.
The way in which every individual letter moves at different paces and moves in differet dirrections is amazing, Not one letter moves the same, they are all individually animated which i know will be very difficult to do.
Luckily i have only four letters to animate but seeing this video has made me decide to strive away from animating the whole word together. Iv decided to animate the letters seperatly as i believe this gives a better idea of the meaning of this word.
Nick Schrunk currently works forRed Bull North America as a Moving Images / Interactive Resident producing and executing strategy for their digital outlets.
You'll find more of his amazing work at www.nickschrunk.com
The way in which every individual letter moves at different paces and moves in differet dirrections is amazing, Not one letter moves the same, they are all individually animated which i know will be very difficult to do.
Luckily i have only four letters to animate but seeing this video has made me decide to strive away from animating the whole word together. Iv decided to animate the letters seperatly as i believe this gives a better idea of the meaning of this word.
Nick Schrunk currently works forRed Bull North America as a Moving Images / Interactive Resident producing and executing strategy for their digital outlets.
You'll find more of his amazing work at www.nickschrunk.com
Kinetic Type by Stewie Griffin
When i first watched this video i thought it was really clever the way they mess around with the words to make it visually more interesting. The part i especially like is the 'haha' bit, the way the image is portrayed on the screen gives a sense of humour and suddeness of the 'haha's'. You can almost imagine the word is actually laughing itself and coming alive.
And the Squirrels back...
By now people will probably think i use squirrels too much to express what im doing in my projects but this happened to be fluke i came acros this video, to stray away from music based thoughts about my kinetic word i typed in the word 'Twirl' in you tube which is probably cheating a little bit and found this video, If you ignore the squirrel which i know is quite hard to do it does actually represent the motion of twirl which is exactly what i needed to start looking at my kinetic word more deeply.
When someone says the word twirl to me i automatically think of twirling out of control, like a leaf falling or one of those helicopter things you played with when you were little that used to fall out of trees (obviously not the proper name for it) but it made me think, is there more to twirling than just... twirling?
When someone says the word twirl to me i automatically think of twirling out of control, like a leaf falling or one of those helicopter things you played with when you were little that used to fall out of trees (obviously not the proper name for it) but it made me think, is there more to twirling than just... twirling?
Inspiration for my 'Twirl' Animation
When i first got this brief my first choice was to use slither as i had quite a few good ideas for it, and how i could make the word slither move across the page, mainly linking it closely with characteristics of a snake but it was only last week when i decided to change my idea to twirl. This word i feel is a graceful, playful and kinetic word which would be good to animate.
As soon as i thought of the idea 'Twirl' i instantly linked it with a piece of music. Whether this was a good idea i don't know, but i couldnt help thinking of it.
Heres the music i instantly thought of -
This to me defines the word twirl, its a really playful piece of music. This piece of music really helped me imagine how i could animate the word 'twirl', as there is different sections to this piece of music, it gave me several ideas as to how i could make my word move.
As soon as i thought of the idea 'Twirl' i instantly linked it with a piece of music. Whether this was a good idea i don't know, but i couldnt help thinking of it.
Heres the music i instantly thought of -
This to me defines the word twirl, its a really playful piece of music. This piece of music really helped me imagine how i could animate the word 'twirl', as there is different sections to this piece of music, it gave me several ideas as to how i could make my word move.
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