*Division of labour.
- How has tech changed Animation?
- What field in Animation do I want to practice?
Favourite styles; Frame-by-frame, Hand drawn, Stop motion, Ryan Woodward, Rotoscoping, Ub Iwerk.
Who watches Animation?
2-8 Children's TV, 7-14 Cartoons, 14-27 Comedic Animations, Game cinematic, Artistic Animations, Animation is not about cartoons, it's a creation of illusions created by the artist, giving them unlimited access to create whatever their imagination is capable of.
Why do Marketing Artists use Animation + Fictional characters?
Touching to their Childhood/ memories.
Intertextuality-
What car film + Animation have in common?
Frame rate
Emotion
Story
Immersive environment that portrays emotion -----> Reflecting emotion.
Special effects
Diagetic and Non-Diagetic sound.
Colour scheme
Mood
Facial expressions + Acting
Multi- Media
Animation has forward looking and backward looking aspects.
Graphic Art-
"Caricature Honore Daumier 1880-1879"
Satirical prints in the 18th century was popular because people wanted to see what was being said about our king. ( It was illegal to make a mockery of the king through art )
Collage: Emerged with 20th century art as a way of capturing a fractured experience.
[Stan Bandarbeek - Google] - Tony Gillian
Dance is key for animators; It's expressive.
Sculpture, CGI, 2D, 3D
Animated projections
Politics: Animation depends on stereotyping, Racism in the 40's. Gerder.
1938 A woman tried to apply as an animator but was not allowed because of gender inferiority.
( Missed session- Feminism )
Hitchcock's Psycho:
|- Black and white
|- Scary music
|-Very minimal
Vertigo
|-Colour
|-Scary music
|- Hypnotic shapes.
Private SNAFU -Spies (1943)
Repetitive
Looks very Warner Bros, style.
Private SNAFU- A few quick facts: Fear (1945).
Very whimsical - Floating eyes, talking horses.
Simplified.
Limited Animation.
"Limited animation is a process of making animated cartoons that does not redraw the entire frames, but variable reuses common parts between frames." - wiki
Saul Bass Animation history of;
Why Man creates. Isaac Davies.
Rear window 1954:
Mise én scene:
-Colour - His house is gray and dark on the inside but outside is colourful, social and bright.
-Diagetic sound- People talking, his magazine/ news paper = Paper turning.
-props- Main prop is the chair and the stool, he just sits there with his foot propped up.
-Gender roles. Women are known as naggers, he's not very nice to his lover.
Women aren't really listened to based on "Ethics"..
He seemed envious of her talents that he started to dismiss her, but now he sees her as weak and does not want her to get hurt.
There is a lot of low key lighting, it's the end of the day, or night.
Isn't really day time through the duration of the movie.. Mainly night time.
He started to admire his girlfriend when she was in the face of danger.
Disney, Childhood, Ideology.
TOY STORY -
How is childhood depicted?
The child (Andy) is very easily excitable and perky. He has a very ripe imagination and has no problem imagining scenarios with his toys. He has plenty of toys and has a certain sentimental attachment to his two main toys, Woody and Buzz. All kids in children's animations, tend to have a favourite toy.
He is jumping on the bed quite erratically. He has a lot of drawings with crayons.
HOWLS MOVING CASTLE-
How is childhood depicted?
Young girls are working from a young age and have perfect etiquette.
They are very hard working and have the wit of an older person.
Younger children also seem to be well behaved and everyone tries to act older than they are, and all the older people try to act younger than they are, buy socializing and going out partying.
TOY STORY-
Are there any jokes or references that are not aimed at children?
Mr potato head makes a joke about being Picasso by jumbling up his face.
Woody and little Bo peep make jokes about what they get up to in the evening.
Mr. potato head makes a wish to have a Mrs. Potato head.
Buzz jokes about fossil fuels.
Buzz says that he doesn't think Sid ever been to a veterinarian school before..
Mr. potato head calls piggy an uncultured swine.
HOWLS MOVING CASTLE-
The girl doesn't really make any jokes till she is turned into an old woman and she continues to make snide remarks about her age and how it wasn't what she expected.
Word association.
20 words that come into my head about Rotoscoping.
Tracing
Manipulate
Frame by Frame
Fluid
Realistic
Layers
Colour change
Bold
Lineage
History
Rhythm
Rotoscoping
Cartoonising
Movement
Reality
Fantacy
Frame Rate.
After this word association I cam up with a question to do with Animation, The question I came up with is "How does history effect the style of animation?"
I go on to explain about how I think rotoscoping plays a huge part in the style as it is a tracing of a physical image, I also believe that the new technology used in animation also plays a huge part in the style of animation.
This blog post will be found here: How does history effect the style of Animation?
I arrived late but when I arrived, the class was watching an animation about a mosquito and a man and they were discussing the "Gags" in this animation. I.e the movement.
They said the movements were erratic and exaggerated.
I noticed that the animation was very repetitive and that was rather amusing, it was also quite funny that the mosquito was causing grievance to the man but would fly away before the man could hit it. The mosquito would fill up with the mans blood which was quite weird to see.
Secondly we watched Felix the cat in fairy land 1923-
Felix the cat seems to be a bit of a hero, saving the fairy, miss Muffet and the Old lady in the Shoe, but he seems to just fall into these scenarios which may just mean that he is just reluctant about actually saving these people.
There are moments that are Whimsical, moments being the spider; Makes a web that goes straight up in the air ( like a ladder) and felix the cat physically climbs it like kids are expected to climb rope in a gym.
Felix's tail has the ability to detach itself from his body and form shapes like question marks.
Silly Symphony (sound cartoon)
How have the animators altered the humour?
Rhyth, ... Without dialogue we rely highly on facial expression and the rhythm of the music.
This animation features a lot of conflict and some fear and people are antagonizing each other.
Humour in Animation is based and reliant on conflict and often mild violence, there is something funny about it not happening to the audience.
Slapstick humour is highly recognised even today where characters are often subjected to to self harm to appease a younger character.. Often a baby that is very hard to control or stop crying.
Yankee Doodle Daffy 1943
Daffy forces Porky pig into his office despite him just about to leave for a holiday.. Daffy calls porky a "fatso" which is considered humorous but also, Dark.
Daffy is quite pushy to sell his client.
I think that the movements are very exaggerated.
A SCANNER DARKLY
I don't particularly remember what it is exactly that I had to write about this, so I'm just going to analyse it the only way I know how.
This film is a Rotoscoped film, something about drugs, while I enjoy the style and the skills of it, the story itself was actually quite hard to follow, I understood the most of it, I just couldn't really understand some of the scenes where the characters were either high or hallucinating.. And the film seems to be set in the future since there are people walking around in weird holographic suits that generate a continuous pixelated and jumbled identity, the idea behind it is so the people wearing them will never have their identity compromised.
I liked the style of this animation because it's very jumpy but smooth at the same time.
