HA4 - Task 1 Animation Techniques

Optical Toys 
A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope)

The phenakistoscope was an early animation device that used a spinning disk of sequential images and the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistoscope)

The invention of the thaumatrope, whose name means "turning marvel" or "wonder turner," has often been credited to the astronomer Sir John Herschel.  However, it was a well-known London physicist, Dr. John A. Paris, who made this toy popular.  Thaumatropes were the first of many optical toys, simple devices that continued to provide animated entertainment until the development of modern cinema.

(source: http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit06.htm)

Here is my example: (Item refuses to render)

Keyframe

Motion tweening is having a computer fill the gaps between two keyframes by moving an object from one point to another.

(source: http://imgarcade.com/1/keyframe-animation/)

This is my example:


Shape tweening is having a computer fill the gaps between two keyframes by changing the shape of an object.

(source: http://learningame.inforef.be/tutoriaux/flash_tweening.html)

This is my example

Cell
Cell animation is when characters are drawn on cels and laid over a static background drawing. This reduces the number of times an image has to be redrawn

(Source: http://everlastanimation.blogspot.co.uk/p/tugas-5-cel-animation_7721.html)

This is my experiment

Video

Filtered video animation is when you film something then put a filter over it.

(Source: http://imgkid.com/a-scanner-darkly-gif.shtml)

here are my examples.

Stop motion

Stop motion animation is when many images are taken then edited together to make an animation. here is an example:


We took lots of pictures and edited them together to make a animation.