5 Disney Animations

Clay Animation Evaluation

Clay animation or ‘clay-mation’ is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable" made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay. In clay animation, each object is sculpted in clay or a similarly pliable material such as Plasticine, usually around a wire skeleton called an armature. As in other forms of object animation, the object is arranged on the set (background), a film frame is exposed, and the object or character is then moved slightly by hand. Another frame is taken, and the object is moved slightly again. This cycle was repeated until I had achieved the desired amount of film.

Many TV shows and film productions use this technique such as Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Morph, Pingu and many others.

The weaknesses of this technique are that sometimes the body proportion of a character are different and therefore make it harder to sculpt and allow the character to stand on it’s own. In addition to this, fine movement is not easy unless the model is made with ball joints. They also take a relatively long time to make and require maintenance as the heat/lighting dries them out.

However there are some strengths to this type of animation such as clay models are relatively easy to make and most importantly easy to move into position. They can also be made to represent any object or person.

In my clay animation I worked with a partner and we were able to combine our ideas and create two clay characters; a female and a male. My animation shows the male figurine playing a game of croquet. We then created a ball that chased the man and planted it’s self as a tree. As the tree grew the female figurine then came along and admired the tree.

The strengths of our production were that we we’re able to agree on an idea and use both figurines in the short film. Also the production was able to run smoothly as we watched previous TV shows and movies that used this technique, so we able to establish how much and how fast/slow we had to move our Claymation in order for it to look flawless. The weaknesses of our production were we found it hard to position our characters and our timing as the film was only a couple seconds long compared to other peoples’ production which were a minutes longer.

Drawn Animation Evaluation

Hand drawn animation, also known as direct animation or animation without camera, is an animation technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock, as opposed to any other form of animation where the images or objects are photographed frame by frame with an animation camera. There are several weaknesses to this type of animation; Time consuming as the large numbers of drawings and the photography time required in completing a production consumes schedules and can result in delays. 
Lack of marketing as computer animation relies on software and a number of computer processors to speed up the process, and correcting mistakes by hand as repetition of work can become tiresome and time consuming. Artistic corrections for quality animations are costly, as they demand repetition of an entire task.

However there are some strengths to this technique as drawing animations by hand allows you to be more creative with your characters and settings. Also animation that's drawn directly on the film reel, using a number of tools, techniques, and methods skips the entire process of cel animation, photographing, and video sequencing - or the more modern process of digital rendering. Furthermore, hand drawn animation is often the only way to communicate complex ideas quickly and creatively.

Cut Out Animation Evaluation

Cut Out animation is when you take segments of magazines, newspapers or images that are either drawn/printed off of the internet. These images are then organized into specific orders, and moved slowly as the camera takes a shot of them.

If these images are moved slowly each time, the motion picture will look smooth. However, if the images are moved to far apart the animation looks rough; this results in your motion picture looking like a non-professional film.

Cut-out animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs.

Today, cut-out-style animation is frequently produced using computers, with scanned images or vector graphics taking the place of physically cut materials. South Park is a notable example of this transition since its first episode was made with paper cut-outs before switching to computer animation.

Examples of cut out animation include TV shows such as Angela Anaconda, Charlie and Lola and Blue’s Clues.

The strengths of this technique are the use of your characters already being pre drawn for you. This saves time and therefore makes the animation process quicker.  In addition to this cut out animation is also favourable due to the detail of a drawing not changing giving your work better quality. Furthermore, cut-out animation is cheaper and has endless possibilities.

The weaknesses of cut-out animation are that it is time consuming and may not always produce great quality work. Also there are limitations as to how far you can create a 3-D effect as the pictures are only 2-D.

Before we started our Cut- out Animation we had to research previous skills, techniques and animators that have used it. We began by looking through magazines and old newspapers for inspirations for ideas.

This process was quite time consuming as finding the correct size letters and images was very difficult. After this I created a sketched out thought bubble and began to take shots of the letters crawling onto the page creating the question ‘Does God Exist and Why?’ This idea would then be presented with both opinions from Christians/ Muslims and Catholics and then from Atheists and Agnostics. In my animation I am most proud of the use of words crawling onto the page as if they are moving to a certain rhythm. This made my motion picture look smoother. However I believe I could improve this by adding a follow up question or my own opinion.

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50 Animations

50 Different Animation Films

1.) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2.) Pinocchio (1940)
3.) Fantasia (1940)
4.) Dumbo (1941)
5.) Bambi (1942)
6.) Saludos Amigos (1942)
7.) The Three Caballeros (1944)
8.) Make Mine Music (1946)
9.) Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
10.) Melody Time (1948)
11.) The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
12.) Cinderella (1950)
13.) Alice in Wonderland (1951)
14.) Peter Pan (1953)
15.) Lady and the Tramp (1955)
16.) Sleeping Beauty (1959)
17.) One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
18.) The Sword in the Stone (1963)
19.) The Jungle Book (1967)
20.) The Aristocats (1970)
21.) Robin Hood (1973)
22.) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
23.) The Rescuers (1977)
24.) The Fox and the Hound (1981)
25.) The Black Cauldron (1985)
26.) The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
27.) Oliver & Company (1988)
28.) The Little Mermaid (1989)
29.) The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
30.) Beauty and the Beast (1991)
31.) Aladdin (1992)
32.) The Lion King (1994)
33.) Pocahontas (1995)
34.) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
35.) Hercules (1997)
36.) Mulan (1998)
37.) Tarzan (1999)
38.) Fantasia 2000 (1999)
39.) Dinosaur (2000)
40.) The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
41.) Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
42.) Lilo & Stitch (2002)
43.) Treasure Planet (2002)
44.) Brother Bear (2003)
45.) Home on the Range (2004)
46.) Chicken Little (2005)
47.) Meet the Robinsons (2007)
48.) Bolt (2008)
49.) The Princess and the Frog (2009)
50.) Tangled (2010)

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