3D CGI Animation

3D CGI Animation

Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images, The term people use when talking about Animation is CGI which has bot static and dynamic images, Computer animation is ultimately just the successor to stop motion which was used in traditional animation.

The way that 3D CGI Animation works is models  are built on the computer monitor (modeled) and 3D figures are rigged with a virtual skeleton, it will begin transparent but will start to shape up the more time the animator is spending and should then become a realistic looking animation.

3D CGI was invented in 1960 by graphic designer William Fetter, the work that Fetter did was development of ergonomic descriptions of the human body that are both accurate and adaptable to different environments, and so this resulted in the first 3D animated wire-frame figures.

Here are two examples of 3D CGI Animation:

2D Computer Graphic Animation

2D Computer Graphic Animation

2D computer graphics are most commenly used in applications that were originally developed at traditional printing and drawing technologies, such as typography, cartography, technical drawing, advertising .2D graphics models may combine vector graphics, digital images, text to be typeset (defined by content, font style and size, color, position, and orientation), mathematical functions and equations, and more. 




2D Graphics started in the 1950s with vector graphics these were largely supplanted by raster-based devices in the following decades. 

A advantage of 2D Computer Graphic Animation is that it has the freedom of the scene.it is the fact that the animator or director can do whatever they want with the scene.They can change the syle of the line for a certain effect and also they can change the colours.

A disadvantage of 2D Computer Graphic Animation  it can be time consuming, if done by hand. the cartoon look is starting to go out of fashion. you can get more realism and atmosphere with 3D 

Cell Animation

Cel Animation

In 1910 Earl Hurd at John Bray studios invented the Cel animation process. A cel is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. This type was used during the first half of the 20th century, but since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable it was largely replaced by cellulose acetate.

Generally, the characters are drawn on cels and laid over a static background drawing.

An advantage of cel animation is that the creator does not have to keep drawing the same image as the animation is set up in layers.

the only disadvantage to cell animation is that it takes a long time to produce a cartoon or film due to the huge amount of frames needed to make movement and is very time consuming as well, and because of this it is more expensive to produce 2D/traditionally animation films. 

Here are two examples of Cel animation:

Flipbook

Flipbook

Flipbook is perhaps one of the hardest animations to create because if you are wanting to make a detailed flipbook then everything should be precise and highly detailed. If you are creating a flipbook you will need a small book with blank pages and with pen and pencils you can also use continues pictures to create a more life like effect.

The first flipbook that was created appeared in September 1898, the creator is John Barnes Linnet. This type of animation was the first to use a linear sequence of images rather than circular.

Here are two examples of flipbook animations the first being a photograph flipbook the next being a drawn flipbook.

A advantage of a Flipbook is that it is can be anything from a comic strip to a company booklet, another advantage thanks to interactive design flipbooks can even be more colourful and appealing.

A disadvantage of Flipbook is that you have to be a talented artist to be able to create a realistic flipbook, the same drawing has to be made over and over again with minor changes. 

Stop Motion

Stop Motion

stop motion is series of still images with objects moved around each picture to make a number of images into a stop motion video to make it look as though it is moving it self. The most well known company is Aardman Animations who have created the likes of Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the sheep.

Stop motion can be used by using anything such as a person, clay, Lego or any utensils lying around The first instance of any stop motion was by Albert E.Smith and J.Stuart Blackton for vitagraphs The Humpty Dumpty Circus in 1898.

Stop motion is still around and has made some of the most remembered films or tv programmes of all time some examples are.

• Wallace and Gromit: The curse of the ware rabbit (2005)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Robocop (1987)
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• The Lego movie (2014)

Although The Lego is more advanced than passed stop motion and has some other added effects to help create the movie it still comes from the stop motion roots.

A more well known version and perhaps the famous version of stop motion is Wallace and Gromit which is made by clay and the moved around to give the effect that the characters are moving around by themselves. Here is an example of how it is created.

An advantage of stop motion is that you can animate inanimate object,  you can also create cool effects when creating your stop motion video.

A disadvantage of stop motion is that it is difficult to get a consistent image quality and can also be difficult to get a good fluid animation.