For the birds by Pixar

the animation for the birds is a short film made by Pixar to try out different techniques for later films such as monsters inc and cars. the techniques they tried out was the animation of feathers and a continuously moving or looping background. the animation is about some small birds all landing on a telephone wire the first 4 with there own names and personality's but still looking identical there names are Chipper, Bully, Snob and Neurotic which tell you bout there personality's with just the name. after the first four birds land more land and they all start fighting until a big bird comes and makes a funny noise so all the little birds laugh at him he doesn't realise that they are being horrible and flies in the middle of the birds to sit with them and makes the wire drop then he falls upside down and the little birds try make him fall of completely until when he does the big bird falls about 10 cm to the ground and the little birds go flying up in the air and lose there feathers and they fall to the ground naked and the big bird laughs at them; karma.the characters in the animation are all identical besides the big bird besides the little birds all have different facial expressions and movements and like different personality's. the animation is very cute, quirky and simple. the animation is made using CGI

(computer generated imagery) besides some parts were the feathers had to be hand drawn. computer generated imagery animation is used a lot if Disney pixar films and diney have sold all of there drawing studios.

Harvie Krumpet

Harvie Krumpet is a australien oscar winning clay mation short film directed by adam elliot and produced by melodrama pictures of a family who all have problems and are diffrent/the odd ones. Adam Elliot uses exaggerated clay mation with a unique style; he uses twitches because he has a twitch in real life and he trys to make it seem like it is a photo album flickering so it feels really personal to create empathy. the auidence would like it because it combinces sadness, sereality and comedy. it fits in to most auidneces because kids like the comedy teens like the originality and diffrence and adults feel sorry and relate to the characters. it won an oscar i think because it made you sympathise to the charcters and think abnout people in real life with disabiltys and he would defeinatily get 10/10 for orginialyty and his own uniqe style. this animation is like vincent for its serealty,claymation, funny, about isolation and lonlyness but its diffrent because vincent is more disturbing. i like adam elliots style because he has very cuty faces and he exatrates body parts. it was narrated by jefforery rush.

http://www.melodramapictures.com/
http://www.harveykrumpet.com/

Vincent, by Tim Burton (1982) critique

Vincent, by Tim Burton (1982) critique
Tim Burton filmographyFrom http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/.1. Frankenweenie (2011) (pre-production) (producer) 2. Alice in Wonderland (2010) (producer) 3. 9 (2009/I) (producer)4. Corpse Bride (2005) (producer) 5. The World of Stain boy (2000) (producer) 6. Lost in Oz (2000) (TV) (executive producer) 7. Mars Attacks! (1996) (producer)8. James and the Giant Peach (1996) (producer)9. Batman Forever (1995) (producer)10. Ed Wood (1994) (producer)11. Cabin Boy (1994) (producer)12. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (produced by)
13. Batman Returns (1992) (producer)14. Edward Scissor hands (1990) (producer) 15. Luau (1982) (producer) 16. Stalk of the Celery (1979) (producer)
Early on in his film career he was successful by almost unimaginable good luck, but it's his skills and originality that have kept him a big successful animator. Tim Burton started drawing young and went on to study at California institute of arts studying animation after being awarded a fellowship from Disney, which he went on to work with however he found that the mainstream Disney films he worked for (The Fox and the Hound (1981))this was very much out of his comfort zone so Disney let him have the freedom to make his own personal projects, the six-minute animated black-and-white Gothic Vincent Price tribute Vincent (1982), and the 27-minute live-action Frankenweenie (1984), they were both considered unsuitable for children and both were never released. After this Tim Burton left Disney to become one of the biggest and most well known animators ever with his work being a large part of our day to day culture. One of his biggest influences was Vincent price and films.Like most of Tim burtons work Vincent was focused on a misunderstood outcast. This animation was on the topic of banishment, loneliness, identity, childhood and insanity expressed in a very poetic way. Personally i enjoyed “Vincent” and the way he narrated it with a very low voiced poem and didn’t even need to use speaking to show what was going on. I also enjoyed his typical style of exaggerated body parts and cloths etc and the feel of the dynamics of dark and light he uses.Vincent was made with stop motion and clay motion animation techniques and was Tim Burtons first stop motion film. Stop motion is frame by frame animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. Each frame (photo) the object would move very slightly so after tons of frame together it would give a very smooth illusion that the object is moving on its own.Something Tim Burton is very good at is bringing a gothic dark film into a child friendly audience. Vincent was a mix of styles such as gothic, dark, black humour, fatalistic, deranged and childish with a comic look. I think Vincent is done very well as it has more depth than just an animation as it uses contrasts of light and dark to spread the real world from Vincent Malloy’s imagination.I think for Burton, Vincent was a chance to express himself and show people what he is and how he likes to work after his failure with Disney. I also think it was chance for Tim to present himself as Vincent as a outsider artist (He makes Vincent come across as a artist by showing with quill and easel). it was his first chance to express his real gothic style to everyone and started off his whole career later going on to do Frankenweenie.The audience and critics loved Vincent especially the fact he got Vincent price one of the biggest horror actors that lived. Vincent himself said that the film “was the most gratifying thing that ever happened. It was immortality–better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard”. Even after this Disney still refused to show it. The film was the start of Tim burtons work which now is nationally acclaimed and is a large part of many cultures.

Hilton ads by Raimund Krumme

this animation is made withh a single lined metamorphisis animation techinqe and i think that it represents the culture of traveling (the dragon), the adrenniline or exitement of travel (the chilli), the enjoyment of travel (the desert) and the laxynes of holidays (the waiter carrying food). one very effective thing is how they matched up the music and the animation for example the sound changes when the picture/object changes.

whiteborad animation

This is an animation made using a whiteboard and Stop Motion made by Kristfer Strom. By making small changes to the drawing and filming one frame at a time, you can make an interesting animation, this examples shows someone drawing things in live action and then came to life after. At times Kristifer would combine live action with stop motion by changing things while they moved for example when he drags the birds away like he is in control i think this represents him showing he is free to do as he pleases in his animation and he is kind of the god of his imagination. I like the animation and the way it flows very fluid like espiecally in the metamorphios parts. He uses upbeat music which i think goes very well with the fluid imaginative animation. This animation is similer in ways that it uses common animation techinqes but it is the first animation i have ever seen that mixes live aciton and stop motion at the same time.

Metamorphous and zoetrope animation

last week we went to NUCA to do a workshop on animation with on of the course teachers there. while we were there we learnt and tryed 2 new diffrent animation techinqes Metamorphous and zoetrope. first we were all given a word and a number and we had to draw what the word it said for example i had to draw a cooker. after we had to find the number 1 up from us and draw there imige (trace) and then after we all had to turn our object to the next persons object for example mine was a cooker turing into a teapot. the last person had to turn there object into the first persons so it would be continusly changing. we all had to change the object with a series of 12 pictures or more to create over 24 frames as you take 2 photos of each drawing 12x 2 photos each time = around 1 secound. i did 20 drawing making about 1 and a half secounds which made 17 secounds when we all put them together but was now doubed up to make it 34 secounds.

next we did zoetrope animation which is 16 pictures put together in a line looping back to eachother then is placed in the zoetrpe and spun so you saw the imige flickering and moving. it makes you think it is moving even though it is just paper and zoetrope no computer or cameras used. when we took photos for the Metamorphouswe shot in twos to make it double length and make it alot smoother (less jumpy)