Review animation techniques.
In this essay I will be talking about the 5 techniques that I used while in 2D animation this includes stop motion, flipbook, Zoetrope, thaumatrope and Claymation this essay will be in extensive detail showing what I used provided with images.
The first technique is stop motion. In animation stop motion animation is a cinematic process, or technique used to makes static objects appear as if they were moving. This technique is commonly used in Claymation and puppet-based animation. The objects are brought to life by breaking up the figure's motion into increments and filming one frame of film per increment.
The second technique is Flipbook. Flipbook animation is a simple type of animation created by viewing successive images so quickly that they seem to form a sequence. The most common method is by printing images on the pages of a book, which can then be flipped or thumbed through rapidly. A flipbook animation is also known as a kineograph or thumb book. Flipbooks and similar devices were important early precursors of film animation. For this reason, many animators and animation fans have a fondness for the flipbook format.
Soon after the invention of photography in 1826, photographers and inventors began studying the principles that would lead to motion pictures. Primary among these was persistence of vision, a physiological phenomenon in which the human eye retains an image for a split-second after seeing it. If a succession of images showing a sequence of movements is displayed quickly enough, it creates the illusion of continual movement to the observer. This principle allows for the creation of motion pictures, both photographic and animated, which are composed of multiple still images. The initial application of this concept, however, was the flipbook.
The third technique is Thaumatrope. The thaumatrope was invented by an English physician named J. A. Paris in eighteen-twenty-six. It’s credited with being the first cinematographic device and shows us something interesting about how the eye works! But first, you’re probably wondering how the thaumatrope works.
Simply take a small piece of cardboard, say the size of a coaster, and draw two different images on either side. In Paris’ original version, there was an empty birdcage on one side and a bird on the other. Now attach string to the ends so that the entire thing can be spun. Set your thaumatrope a-whirling, and it becomes one image! You could see the bird inside the cage!
The fourth technique is Claymation.
Claymation is the generalized term for clay animation, a form of stop animation using clay. The term was coined by its creator, Will Vinton, owner of an animation studio that worked with clay artists to create clay animation. Claymation involves using objects or characters sculpted from clay or other mouldable material, and then taking a series of still pictures that are replayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement. Some of the more famous characters created in this form include Gumby and Pokey, Wallace and Gromit, and the California Raisins.
In a Claymation production, artists sculpt the characters out of clay and often support the sculpture with wire moulds underneath. To create the illusion of movement, the position of the sculpted characters is altered slightly in every still photo, or frame. Just like other forms of animation, Claymation generally requires a storyboard or background for the characters to be set against and to develop what they will do or say. Depending on the length of production, the same character may need to be sculpted hundreds of times.
The fifth technique is Zoetrope. The zoetrope (pronounced ZOH-uh-trohp), invented in 1834 by William George Horner, was an early form of motion picture projector that consisted of a drum containing a set of still images, that was turned in a circular fashion in order to create the illusion of motion. Horner originally called it the Daedatelum, but Pierre Desvignes, a French inventor, renamed his version of it the zoetrope (from Greek word root zoo for animal life and trope for "things that turn.")
A zoetrope is relatively easy to build. It can be turned at a variable rate to create slow-motion or speeded-up effects. Like other motion simulation devices, the zoetrope depends on the fact that the human retina retains an image for about a tenth-of-a-second so that if a new image appears in that time, the sequence was seem to be uninterrupted and continuous. It also depends on what is referred to as the Phi phenomenon, which observes that we try to make sense out of any sequence of impressions, continuously relating them to each other.
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