Wednesday 28 September 2016

Meiles, Reinger and Mccay

Image result for georges melies trip to the moonGeorges Melies was an illusionist and director in the earliest days of cinema. Born in Paris 1861 Melies was an innovator in special effects, time lapse photography, multiple exposures and hand painted colour.  A trip to the moon which contains a rocket of astronauts flying into the moon. This is probably Melies most popular film. Melies was a magicail who made these animations for magic stunts.











Winsor Mccay was a cartoonist and animator from America, born in 1867 in Michigan he was very artistic from a young age from making posters, illustrating in magazines and newspapers in 1893 Winsor had a professional career and a very clever mind.  His most famous work was Little Nemo which ranged from the years 1905-1914. Also Gertie the dinosaur which is short video and the first film to feature a dinosaur. Not only did Mccay make these but hw also inveted the mutoscope information about this can be found in the blog.




Lotte Reinger is the Gerrman woman who directed films and pioneered animations. Born june 2 1899 in Charlottenburg, Germany. She had more than 40films in her total career all made purely from her imagination.  One of her most known films is called The Adventures Of Prince Achmed which is currently the longest surviving animation.




Tuesday 27 September 2016

Different types of old school animation





Zoe is a pre film animation which is produced by a motion of illusion which displays which contains a sequence of drawing or photos.

The phenakistoscope was a animation device that used the persistance of vision which creates the illusion of motion.

hhThe kinetoscope is a type of motion-picture film projector which was made by the inventor Thomas A. Edison and William Dickson in 1891. Whoevever peeped through the machine can watch the animation from a looking down angle..



mutoscope
The mutoscope is an early type of motion picture device. The inventor of this was Winsor McCay on Novermber 21 1894 like the Kinetoscope only one person can view the animation at a time. 



Wednesday 21 September 2016

Thermotrope

This is Thermotrope example I found on the internet.

Mine and Carly

Me and Carly made our stop animation using istopmotion camera app on the mac. We took still images of me wearing a seal mask then we copied the images and pasted them and then we reversed the sequence of images.

Tuesday 20 September 2016