Animation Workshop 14 th & 21 st March 2012

 1824 – Peter Mark Roget presented the idea that persistence of vision could create the illusion of motion  1895 – When movie cameras and projectors are invented, James Stuart Blackton creates ‘The Enchanted Drawing’  1928 – Walt Disney creates ‘Steamboat Willie’ the first animation with sound  1937 – Disney releases ‘Snow White’ – the first feature-length animation

 1972 – Ed Catmull develops an animating scripting language for computers  1982 – ‘Tron’ was the first movie with CG premise  1987 – John Lassetter at Pixar publishes a paper ‘Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation’  1995 – ‘Toy Story’ is the first full-length 3D CG feature film

Necessary tools –  A digital camera  Plenty of hard drive space to store photos  A tripod – for steady shots  Lighting – which needs to be constant within a scene  Video editing software

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 Once you have an idea for your animation, it is good practice to create a storyboard before shooting the animation – that way you’ll know exactly what you need to shoot  You can also show the storyboard to others in your group to convey ideas quickly and easily  Here is a good website which explains this: oard%20Resource/ oard%20Resource/

 Expect to shoot 10 photos for every second of animation  Using a tripod and only moving the object will make it look like it is moving through the frame  If you make a mistake whilst shooting, you can delete the photo and take another  Ensure you move your object slowly through several frames

 This varies from camera to camera and computer to computer  Save all your photos in a safe place on the computer  They are now ready for importing into a video editing program, such as iMovie (Mac program)  There are programs for Windows and Linux as well which can do this

 Import your photos into iMovie or equivalent  Your photos should appear in order  Select a timing rate of 0.03 for all photos – 3 frames per photo – this means you will see 10 photos per second  300 photos should give 10 seconds of animation  For finishing touches, sound or music can be added

 iMovie for Mac (usually preinstalled on Mac)  iStopMotion for Mac (around £30)  JPGVideo for Windows (free)  Windows Movie Maker (free) – part of Windows Live package  Stopmotion for Linux (free)

 Between You and Me – shot entirely in stop motion  Art of Motion – very clever, by Russell Wyner of the University of Rochester  A Town Called Panic, The Picnic – using toy figures  Animal Beatbox – Tropfest 2011 Winner, all cut-out animation  Robot Chicken Star Wars Trailer – toys again NB - All of the above are on YouTube

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