An artist I really admire once said, “An animator is just an actor with a pencil”. This struck me because as much as I love animation and want to go into it, I never once thought of it that way until I heard it. The artist who said that is one of Disney’s most gifted illustrator, character designer, animator, and concept artist, Glen Keane. He will forever be one of my favorite artists because of how his work both influences and inspires my work as an aspiring artist. Using such organic line work he is able to create pieces that show years of experience behind, with nothing more than just a pencil.
Glen Keane’s work is so fluid and organic. To me has always seemed to embody everything that is amazing about 2D animation. Every time i watch
Some people may call him “The King”, Elvis Presley is a well-known musician who stepped out of the norm and created a different kind of music. Presley combined pop, country, gospel, and black R&B to create his musical style. Presley caught everyone’s attention with his dance moves and musical talent. Elvis Presley led the way for many musicians, and has impacted the lives of many people.
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There a few different types of animation, the first one, and hand-drawn 2D aka traditional animation. When using this technique, animators need to make at least 12 drawings on paper to get 1 second length of film. The pages together basically make a flip book to show the movements. Then they get scanned and put into the computer. The next kind is Digital 2D animation, which is just drawing the frames directly onto the computer using a pen tablet. This is commonly used for TV series. Digital 3D, is almost all done on the computer, getting textures, and animated movements in the software to cut the work load in half.
Whenever I am asked for an example of good animation I am hard pressed to choose amongst the abundance of my childhood, but should I be asked my favorite in a heartbeat I’ll replay, “AKRIA.” The vivid imagery and blast of color is sure to grab a young child’s attention as it did mine. However, the most notable aspect of this film was the amount of detail and the personality breathed into the characters. The director of AKRIA, Katsuhiro Otomo, and creator of the source manga has created a cult classic that influences many artist and cartoonist today, even having a Simpsons parody of the trailer made. (figure 1) Of course Katsuhiro didn’t appear from thin air.
“I’m very involved with the whole line test thing. For me, when you’ve worked all day on an animation and that moment when you see the drawings move, that’s a really magic moment, and there is no sound to it. I also think that an animation without the constraints of spoken words is stronger. If you have to fit everything to the words, all the gestural movement revolves around the mouth. Without it, you are much freer to create true animation, to talk through animation itself. Animation modeled around the dialogue is like something, which has already been set in stone, there’s less scope for interpretation. I have always wanted the animators to bring something to it.”
The concept of using human movement as a basis for animated characters is not new. In fact, it began as early as 1919 with Max Fleischer’s Koko the Clown. Max, having taken video footage of his brother Dave in a clown suit, used his invention, the Rotoscope, to trace the action of his animated character. Though this was very time consuming, it resulted in amazingly li...
When think about animation and cartoon, just come to mind many comical images. Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (2001) describes animation as giving life or spirit to something and the word cartoon as sketches or drawings similar to the ones we have seen in newspapers [3]. When these words are jointed to animated cartoon they mention to a “motion image containing sequence of pictures, each so little bit different that when filmed and run through a projector can see the images moving” (Random House, Inc., 2001, p. 82) [3]. Cartoons can be described as oldest form of animated cartoons, the traditional animation and the modern computerized animation technology [3]. Cartoon and animation have a great history
Animation opens up questions about the selves, bodies, objects, audiences, labor, and the meaning of life (Gershon "What Do We Talk about When We Talk About Animation.”) Animation is based on how deciders how their performance lays out, which is ones own responsibility, but the audience plays a large part in aiding in the performance of the animated character. Such as how a Catfish works off of how the person and people they are catfishing contribute to the Catfishes performance of their stories and actions. Gershon states that “Characters are often drawn and written as compilations of conventionalized markers, merely implying details and nuance, which encourages the audience to project an affective connection and various social complexities onto the character” , which regards that media ideologies come into place how the audience acknowledges the perforce of the character, and often times since people being catfished become emotionally attached to the Catfish, and continues with the creation of the character they want to believe is
It wouldn’t be a surprise if I were to start this essay by telling you that as a child, I spent most of my time drawing and loving it. It’s something that most of us start loving when we’re little, our appreciation for art starts out when we’re most curious and ignorant about our surroundings. As a little kid, I spent most of my time drawing cartoon characters and abnormal shapes that just seemed funny and original to me. As time progress, only a few of us maintain this type of appreciation for art and for some of us, it diverse into something else. After 5th grade, I forgot how to draw; however, I become more interested in video editing. During my 7th grade years, I started practicing video editing using video game footage with the help of some online friends. A video website called Vimeo is used by many video editors of different region, ready to express their style of editing. I was mainly motivated by them, not of one editor in particular, but they all had their own way of making their videos, their use of visual effects, sound track and sound effects, all made me feel as if I was part of the video itself. This lead to me wanting to improve my video editing skills, constantly searching for free tutorials on YouTube that gradually brought me to where I am today. I’m not saying that I’m an amazing video editor; however, compared to how I started, I would say it’s an impressive progress without any paid lessons.
As far as the skills and talents you need to excel in this career, they are numerous. To be an animator, it is important to have skills in drawing. This will make it easier to perform your job because you will know how to draw what you are animating. Also, having the ability to break things down and analyze your environment is important. This will help you achieve hitting the minor details in your animation. Once you get into the
The type of animation will dictate the amount of technology involved. As a computer animator I have to be familiar with the animating software, along with everyone else on the animating team. They may be amazing artists, but if they can not work the software then they hold everyone back from their duties. This also applies to an animator working with writers and composers; if the animation has dialogue or music. The best of animation has every field on the same track understanding how their skills fit into the project. That is how team work and collaboration functions in the best of
During my childhood I wanted to be a doctor; my teens, a veterinarian. Now that I’m soon to finish high school, I’ve decided I want to be an animator. Animation has been around since the beginning of 1900s, there are a variety of animation styles which make it more interesting. Since I want to pursue a career in animation, I will start with a graphic design degree. It will help me start a foundation with drawing and using the software used by animators. Drawing is a necessity for animation. Though I’m bad at it, I finally have the motivation to practice. I love animation, and have a burning passion to start learning how to animate.
Animators are people who create images such as drawings or computer generated things to come to life through graphics. This job is quite suitable for those who have creative artistic skills such as drawing or modeling, in addition to good computer skills in order to communicate with the audience with accurate detail of the images which contribute into the motion pictures. Work done by animators are everywhere; they are commonly found in films, shows, commercials, pop videos, computer games, websites and other sorts of media and entertainment. These works are done by obtaining images of each movement and, done in a certain way, it turns into some sort of amazing piece of the character’s or object’s actions. A standard animator is to be creative and artistic. Many artistic people go into the field of animation. Animation holds many advantages and opportunities. Multimedia artists and animators put their creative work on the Internet. If the images become popular, these artists can gain more recognition, which can lead to future employment or freelance work. With drawing and sculpting skills for stop frame animations, these artist should be patient to concentrate and passionate on what they ...
Japanese animation, more commonly referred to as anime, or Japanimation, has somewhat different origins than western animation. Where animation developed to entertain European and American children through comedic exploits, anime was created to entertain wider audience groups. Indeed, one might find difficulty in characterizing all anime together; the Japanese have viewed animation as a medium of creation rather a form of entertainment limited in audience and expression. Anime is included in a group from which the United States has traditionally banned animation; specifically, anime is considered a form of creative expression, much as are literature, modern art, live-action films, and other arts. A man by the name of Osamu Tezuka first envisioned animation’s possibilities in Japan in the 1960s (Ledoux, 1). Tezuka realized the power animation could