Thursday 25 October 2012
Ray Harryhausen - Developer
Ray Harryhausen
is one of the most successful stop motion animators in history. Many things
inspired him from a young age such as king kong by Willis O'Brien and visits to
the Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
Once he owned a
camera he created stop motion animation films and took his interest in this
subject further and studied photography and editing at university. Through doing
this, he came up with the idea of creating a film. However his first idea was a
flop as his idea on a film about an unusual creature, was unrecognised. His second
attempt consisted of dinosaurs as one of the main aspects, which happened to be
good quality although it was filmed in a garage. Stop motion animation pioneer George
pal, recognised Rays work and hired him to create puppetoons.
From then on,
Ray Harryhausen worked on a number of films. He created films which have been
recreated today. This shows that his work has inspired and developed ideas into
the modern world.
Willis O'Brien - Developer
Willis O'Brien was a famous special effects and
stop motion animation pioneer. Willis is most famous for his creation of using
stop motion animation on King Kong. This had an incredible effect on the
audience as nobody had ever seen a stop motion animation so long and detailed
before.
Willis had always been very interested in sculpturing.
He would produce models with rubber connected on them to bring them to life,
which lead on to his talent in stop motion. He then went on to produce some fantastic
films using stop motion which proved to be inspirational to other animators and
film makers.
The Lumiere Brothers - Pioneers
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The films the Lumières' had taken, were approximately 50 seconds long. The video I have linked is the first film which was ever to shown to an audience. It was also the first time an audience had seen moving pictures projected onto a screen, so this obviously had a huge effect on people.
Later After their first public screening, the brothers began commercial production which was soon in demand across the world.
Eadweard James Muybridge - Pioneer
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Friday 12 October 2012
Charles-Émile Reynaud - Pioneer
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The praxinoscope is an improvement to the zoetrope. A series of images, one slightly different to the other, are placed inside a drum. The difference between this and the zoetrope, is that instead of viewing the images through the slits, the images would reflect onto mirrors which are placed in the centre of the drum. Through this different method, the result of using the mirrors were that it proved to be defined, brighter and more effective.
Later on reynaud developed the praxinoscope into the theatre optique. He wanted to expand his invention and present his moving images onto a screen. The praxinoscope only produced about a second of animation. Through using the theatre optique, reynaud was able to produce a longer amount of animation as he could use a long roll of film.
William Horner - Pioneer
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William
George Horner was known for inventing the zoetrope, aswell as being a successful
British Mathematician.
William based his invention on the phenakistoscope which therefore later made
joseph plateau’s invention unsuccessful. The difference between Williams
zoetrope and josephs phenakistoscope, Was that the zoetrope did not require a viewing
mirror. The second improvement of the zoetrope was that more than one person
could view the moving pictures at the same time.
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Here is
a video of a zoetrope and a demonstration of how it works:
Joseph Plateau - Pioneer
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In 1832, Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the
phenakistoscope, also known as the spindle viewer. It was a device where Pictures
on a disc were viewed through slots in the other, it appeared to move when the
two discs were spun and viewed in a mirror. It was also invented by Simon von
Stampfer of Vienna in the same year, who called his invention a stroboscope. Plateau's
inspiration had come from the work of Michael Faraday and Peter Mark Roget. Michael
Faraday had invented a device which had two discs that spun in opposite directions
from one another. Joseph adapted Faraday's wheel into a toy, which he named the
phenakistoscope.
Below, is a video of an example of a phenakistoscope. The spinning
wheel creates the illusion of movement.
Josephs invention was
successful for two years, until another invention was brought out which had
better improvements. As the phenakistoscope was the first device of stop motion,
I believe that it made a big impact towards the history of stop motion and it
therefore influenced other inventors to create something better.
Monday 8 October 2012
Tim Burton
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They use toys, sets, dollhouse props and clay (for facial
expressions) in their stop-motion videos to create their story line. The
concept is easy to understand and execute but in reality it takes an enormous
amount of time and needs a lot of patience.
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Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations,
is a British animation studio which is in Bristol. The studio is famous for
films which uses stop-motion clay animation techniques, especially those that
feature Plasticine characters, for example Wallace and Gromit, shaun and angry
boys.
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In stop motion animation it is life like and
feels more in depth of the character and the surrounding but as a contrast it
may have some disadvantages causing some limitations as time is the essence in
productivity and it takes many hours of work producing limited footage. It is
very time consuming.
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