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Animation: The Different Techniques Explained A Presentation by Andrea Joyce
Animation: The Different Techniques Explained A Presentation by Andrea Joyce
There are many different types of stop-motion animation, usually named after the type of media
used to create the animation, these include:
• Cutout animation
• Claymation animation
• Model animation (like the classic King-Kong)
• Object animation
• Puppet animation
Cutout Animation
Cutout animation is a unique technique for producing animations
using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials
such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhczFRlBT2E
Gumby, an animated character first seen on TV in
1954
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs8VMz-cuc
The Trap Door intro. Claymation TV series from 1984,
ran for 40 episodes
Computer animation
• Computer animation encompasses a
variety of techniques, the unifying idea
being that the animation is created
digitally on a computer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5YmIS57J9E
Sand Animation
• During the process of sand animation an artist creates a series of images using sand, a process
which is achieved by applying sand to a surface and then rendering images by drawing lines and
figures in the sand with one's hands.
• To increase visibility and to add further artistic aesthetic, a sand animation performer will often
use the aid of an overhead projector or lightboard. In the latter, animators move around sand on
a backlighted or frontlighted piece of glass to create each frame for their animated films.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZq2ddxviCA Ferenc Cako - Story Of The Old Castle
Drawn on film animation
• Drawn on film animation (also known as "direct animation", or "animation without camera") is
an animation technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock,
as opposed to any other form of animation where the images or objects are photographed frame
by frame with an animation camera
• There are two basic methods to produce animation directly on film. One starts with blank film
stock, the other one with black (already developed) film. On blank film the artist can draw, paint,
stamp, or even glue objects. Black film (or any footage) can be scratched, etched, sanded, or
punched. Any tool the artist finds useful may be used for this, and all techniques can be
combined endlessly. The frame borders may be observed or completely ignored, found footage
may be included, any existing image might be distorted by mechanical or chemical means.
• The first and best known practictioners of drawn on film animation were Len Lye and Norman
McLaren, who produced numerous animated films using these methods. Their work already
covered the whole span between storytelling and totally abstract animation.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4GAfQc-0p4 Two Sisters by Caroline Leaf
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3y1offmJ4Y A Colour Box by Len Lye (1935)