Examples of Animation

Animation Styles

Traditional Animation

Traditional animation is the animation technique in which pictures are hand drawn in frames and then played in fast succession to create the illusion of movement, like in a flip book. There are a few variations of this, like limited animation. Limited animation, unlike full animation, doesn't fully animate its characters, choosing only to animate parts, like the legs, to give the appearance that the character is moving, thus saving time and money. Similar to traditional is Traditigital animation, in which the images are generated by using computer graphics.

Examples:

• DISNEY! (full animation) - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Winnie the Pooh, The Frog Princess, El Dorado etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQeTlxhhmEo

• Japanese Anime (limited animation) - Pokemon, Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxmB0cn9qAo

Cut-Out Animation

Cut-out animation is an animation technique produced by using flat, 2D characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials like paper. Today this animation technique is often created by substituting scanned images and vector graphics for the paper images on the computer.

• Southpark, Charlie and Lola, Angela Anaconda - all computerised examples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Vfsk1TFFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlWRwQ4dLfc

Stop-Motion

Stop-Motion is an animation technique created by capturing digital images as frames that are then played in fast succession to create the illusion of movement. This technique is most commonly used to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own.

Examples:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY - Tony vs. Paul

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZfFztWLE4

Claymation

Claymation is one of the many forms of stop-motion, created using clay or some other malleable substance, and each character and background piece is 'deformable'.

Examples:

• Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdlxwX6A7g

• Flushed Away is a CGI replication of claymation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJxoJM_ZbY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diVqham5cKA