Storyboard template (6 up)   |  Storyboard (Widescreen 3 up) with Topview

Storyboard examples: W&G | StarWars Troopers/Bullfight | IratePirate

www.animationmeat.com/pdf/televisionanimation/strybrd_the_simpsonsway.pdf

Intro to Storyboards:

Cuts & Transitions:

 

History

animation-history-timeline | history-of-animation.webflow

● significant productions: Disney's Snow White is "first full-length animated feature" or is it?

● working methods: silhouette or paper cut-outs (as used in early South Park, they switched to Toon Boom then Maya); drawn, traced, inked and painted cels; stop-motion, Flash, Ren & Stimpy,

● legacy or influences: eg Willis O'Brien (King Kong) >Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad, Clash of the Titans)> Phil Tippet (Star Wars AT-AT)

● historical context. Harryhausen and Dr Suess both working for US military - Harryhausen given large stocks of expired film. milestones

 

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/machines

Joseph Plateau (phenakitoscope), William Horner (zoetrope), Emile Reynaud (praxinoscope), Edward Muybridge (bullet time), Edison (kinetoscope), Lumière brothers, George Pal

• Jan Švankmajer
• Walt Disney (history of Mickey Mouse)
• Len Lye impressionist riot of colour from 1935-37
• (also Chuck Jones)

contemporary (post-digital era)

• John Lasseter (Pixar/Disney - Toy Story, Cars)
• The Quay Brothers
• Tim Burton (creator of Nightmare before Christmas directed by Henry Selick at Disney, who worked with Laika Studios on Coraline, made with Dragonframe software).
• Nick Park (creator of Wallace & Gromit, made while at Aardman Animation in Bristol)

Now

Glen Keane steps into the paper VR and Duet

Kinetic Typography

Kubo by Laika uses CGI and then 3D printed heads combined with stop-motion

Historic techniques brought up to date

Praxinoscopes

Making of 'Moray McLaren - We Got Time' from Blink on Vimeo.

Flipbooks

Presidents of the USA - "Mixed Up S.o.B." also see Kraak & Smaak

 

Stop Mo - Pixellation examples: Rhett & Link T-Shirt War   |   Aardman's Angry Kid   |  student

Stop Mo - Claymation examples: Miao Mao   |   Insanimation

 

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