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This site presents various sources on the topic of animated films. A summary of all thesaurus terms associated with different style of animation with their definitions and images of illutration (Traditional cartoons, stop motion, Computer animation, animated Cameraless). A tab "News" shows the latest news. The tab "Sources" provide a list of sites dealing with the subject, while the tab "Pictures", displays images.

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Computer animation

Cameraless animation

Stop motion

Traditional animation

Cartoon Network

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/

Focus on animation

Animation at a NFB

http://www3.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/index.php

Cartoon Brew

History of animation

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/

Sommary

Traditional animation *

• Limited animation
• Rotoscoping
• Live-action/animation
• Inbetweening
• Flip book
• Hand-drawn 
• Animated drawings

Sommary

Computer animation *

·      Animation stand

• Erasure animation

o       2D animation

• Flash
• PowerPoint 
• SVG

o       3D animation

• Cel-shaded
• Crowd
• Morph target
• Motion capture
• Non-photorealistic rendering
• Skeletal
• Pose to pose animation

Bambi

Bambi with his friends *

Cars

Cars *

Sommary

Stop motion *

• Puppet animation
• Clay animation
• Strata-cut
• Sand animation
• Cutout animation
• Silhouette animation
• Paper cut-outs 
• Model animation
• Go motion
• Object animation 
• Animatronics
• Graphic animation
• Brickfilm
• Pixilation
• Paint-on-glass animation
• Pinscreen
• Time-lapse animation
• Abstract animation

Snow white

Snow white with her apple *

South Park

South Park *

Thesaurus Cartoons

Thesaurus Cartoons *

Traditional animation 

• Limited animation
• Rotoscoping
• Live-action/animation
• Inbetweening
• Flip book
• Hand-drawn 
• Animated drawings

Stop motion

• Puppet animation
• Clay animation
• Strata-cut
• Sand animation
• Cutout animation
• Silhouette animation
• Paper cut-outs 
• Model animation
• Go motion
• Object animation 
• Animatronics
• Graphic animation
• Brickfilm
• Pixilation
• Paint-on-glass animation
• Pinscreen
• Time-lapse animation
• Abstract animation

Computer animation

·                Animation stand

• Erasure animation

o       2D animation

• Flash
• PowerPoint 
• SVG

o       3D animation

• Cel-shaded
• Crowd
• Morph target
• Motion capture
• Non-photorealistic rendering
• Skeletal
• Pose to pose animation

Cameraless animation

• Drawn on film animation

The simpsons

The simpsons family *

Wallace & Gromit



Wallace & Gromit *



Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland *

King lion

Simba *

Mickey Mouse

Mickey mouse and his friend Pluto *

A short history of Aardman Animations

 05 April of 2012 - By Google

Chicken run *

In the early '70s, schoolmates Peter Lord and David Sproxton start experimenting with animation techniques on a kitchen table. They decide they like clay model animation best.

Source: The Sidney Morning Herald
URL: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/a-short-history-of-aardman-animations-20120404-1wcf6.html

Ice Age 4

Ice Age 4

Source: YouTube
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzixp8s4pyg

Toonzone

Community of animation

http://www.toonzone.net/



The Adventures of Tintin

04 April of 2012 - By Jamie Tadlock

The adventures of Tintin *

The Adventures of Tintin cheerfully makes every misstep you could imagine it making. The plot is sloppy, the tone is inconsistent, the theme is forced, the characters are miswritten, and the action is rote.

Source: Toonzone

URL: http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/42504/the-adventures-of-tintin-more-tin-than-gold/

The Legend of Korra

March 26th, 2012 11:43 AM by Aaron H.Bynum



The Legend of Korra *

Review of the premiere episode of "The Legend of Korra" ("Welcome to Republic City"). The new Nickelodeon animation storms out of the gate with intelligent direction, effective editing, and a story that might be too sharp for its own good. Korra is the new avatar. Her journey toward self-discovery includes a bit of training in Republic City, whose contemporary ailments could prove too heavy of a challenge for the young heroine.

Source: Animation Insider

URL: http://www.animationinsider.net/index.php

Animation insider

News about animation

http://www.animationinsider.net/

Animation news

"Website on the worldwide animation industry"

http://www.animationnews.net/site/

Animation Magazine

"The news, business, technology & art of animation"

http://www.animationmagazine.net/

Animation stand

Animation stand *

Animation stand : An apparatus for frame-by-frame photography of drawings for animated cartoons and of titles for motion pictures.

Erasure animation

Erasure animation *

Erasure animation : Is a technique using tradition 2D medium, photographed over time as the artist manipulates the image.

Erasure video

Puppet animation

Puppet animation *

Puppet animation : puppetry takes many forms but they all share the process of animating inanimate performing objects. Puppetry is used in almost all human societies both as an entertainment – in performance – and ceremonially in rituals and celebrations such as carnivals. Most puppetry involves storytelling. The impact of puppetry depends on the process of transformation of puppets, which has much in common with magic and with play.

Also called : puppetoon, puppetry

Flash animation

Flash animation *

Flash animation : A Flash animation is an animated film which is created using Adobe Flash or similar animation software and often distributed in the .swf file format. The term Flash animation not only refers to the file format but to a certain kind of movement and visual style which, in many circles[citation needed], is seen as simplistic or unpolished. However, with dozens of Flash animated television series, countless more Flash animated television commercials, and award-winning online shorts in circulation, Flash animation is enjoying a renaissance.

Also called : flash cartoon

Clay animation

Clay animation *

Clay animation: “type of animation which generally uses plasticine or clay, such as the "Claymation" work of Will Vinton or the Wallace and Gromit series.”

Also called : plasticine animation

PowerPoint



PowerPoint *



PowerPoint : Microsoft Office product that provides users with an interface to design multimedia slides to be displayed on a projection system or personal computer. The software incorporates images, sounds, videos, text, and charts to create an interactive presentation.

Strata-cut animation

Strata-cut animation *

Strata-cut animation : "is most commonly a form of clay animation in which a long bread-like "loaf" of clay, internally packed tight and loaded with varying imagery, is sliced into thin sheets, with the animation camera taking a frame of the end of the loaf for each cut, eventually revealing the movement of the internal images within. Wax may be used instead of clay for the loaf, but this can be more difficult to use because it is less malleable."

Sand animation

Sand animation *

Sand animation : "also known as sand art, is a term which has two meanings. It is the name given to a style of live performance art, and also to a type of animation. In the former, an artist creates a series of images using sand, a process which is achieved by applying sand to a surface and then rendering images by drawing lines and figures in the sand with one's hands. A sand animation performer will often use the aid of an overhead projector or lightbox (similar to one used by photographers to view translucent films). In the latter, animators move around sand on a backlighted or frontlighted piece of glass to create each frame for their animated films."

Cutout animation

Cutout animation *

Cutout animation: “type of animation using still photos and cut-outs to form a collage.”

SVG

SVG *

SVG : "Scalable Vector Graphics is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic. The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999. When creating a SVG animation, you must be specific about what you are doing. This is where targeting elements and properties for animation come into play. The parser needs to understand what the animation refers to and where to find the definition. For example, if altering the radius of a circle, you point the processor to the radius property".

Silhouette animation

Silhouette animation *

Silhouette animation : "type of animation using intricately cut-out paper figures silhouetted with backlighting. Variations of the technique use backlit sand or other materials."

3D animation

3D animation *

3D animation : "When creating a SVG animation, you must be specific about what you are doing. This is where targeting elements and properties for animation come into play. The parser needs to understand what the animation refers to and where to find the definition. For example, if altering the radius of a circle, you point the processor to the radius property. This is done using attributeName and attributeType".

Paper cut outs

Paper cut outs *

Paper cut outs: "paper cut outs is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. The world's earliest known animated feature films were paper cut outs animations."

Also called : cut-out

Cell shaded

Cell shaded *

Cell shaded : "Cell shaded animation is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make computer graphics appear to be hand-drawn. Cel-shading is often used to mimic the style of a comic book or cartoon. It is a somewhat recent addition to computer graphics, most commonly turning up in video games. However, the end result of cel-shading has a very simplistic feel like that of hand-drawn animation. The name comes from the clear sheets of acetate, called cels, which are painted on for use in traditional 2D animation, such as Disney classics".

Also called : cel shading, toon shading.

Model animation

Model animation *

Model animation: "animation of three-dimensional objects has long fascinated film-makers and film audiences alike. When the animation of small objects became familiar, enterprising filmmakers found new sources of magic through allied techniques such as pixilation and time-lapse animation."

Source :

LAYBOURNE, Kit. The animation book: a complete guide to animated filmmarking-from flip-books to sound cartoons. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. ISBN : 0-517-529467

Go motion

Go motion *

Go motion: "process of giving the illusion of movement to drawings, models, or inanimate objects. From the mid-1850s, such optical devices as the zoetrope produced the illusion of animation. Stop-action photography enabled the production of cartoon films."

Crowd

Crowd *

Crowd : "Crowd is the process of simulating the movement of a large number of entities or characters, now often appearing in 3D computer graphics for film. While simulating these crowds, observed human behaviour interaction is taken into account, to replicate the collective behaviour. The characters are attached to point particles, which are then animated by simulating wind, gravity, attractions, and collisions. The particle method is usually inexpensive to implement, and can be done in most 3D software packages. However, the method is not very realistic because it is difficult to direct individual entities when necessary, and because motion is generally limited to a flat surface".

Also called : Particle Motion, Crowd Al, Crowd simulation.

Object animation

Object animation *

Object animation: "object animation is a form of stop motion animation that involves the animated movements of any non-drawn objects such as toys, blocks, dolls, etc. which are not fully malleable, such as clay or wax, and not designed to look like a recognizable human or animal character".

Morph target

Morph target *

Morph Target : "Morph target animation, is a method of 3D computer animation used together with techniques such as skeletal animation. In a morph target animation, a "deformed" version of a mesh is stored as a series of vertex positions. In each key frame of an animation, the vertices are then interpolated between these stored positions".

Also called : Per-vertex animation, shape interpolation, or blend shapes

Motion capture

Motion capture *

 

Motion capture : "Motion capture is a term used to describe the process of recording movement of one or more objects or persons. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, and medical applications, and for validation of computer vision and robotics. In filmmaking, and games, it refers to recording actions of human actors, and using that information to animate digital character models in 2D or 3D computer animation. When it includes face and fingers or captures subtle expressions, it is often referred to as performance capture".

Also called : motion tracking, mocap

Animatronics

Animatronics *

Animatronics: animatronics is the use of mechatronics to create machines which seem animate rather than robotic. Animatronic creations include animals (including dinosaurs), plants and even mythical creatures. A robot designed to be a convincing imitation of a human is specifically known as an android.