Tuesday 14 May 2013

ANIMATION AFTER 1938


What could animation feature do after 1938?
- By 1938 animated cartoons had improved to a point were audience interest could be sustained for more than 6 or 7 minutes. So the cartoon feature could be a possibility. Snow white is an example of a feature length cartoon/film.

- Walt DISNEY

What does he say if the primary purpose of animation?

-Fantasia: This type of cartoon did not rely upon telling a story, but rather to tempted to create an emotional response in the audience by combining form, colour and motion to interpret fine music

What does he say combine to create this effect?

-  The cartoons combine together form, colour and motion to interpret fine music and to create an emotional response towards the audience.

Explain how they made the film images using paint brushes, what effects were created?

- Every effort was made to retain the fragile character in the inspirational sketches. Most of which were rendered in pastels and chalks. In adapting the production it became apparent that the usual hard ink lines and flat opaque areas of colour could not do them justice. To retain the authorial quality transparent paint were developed. The reproduce the pastel affect a dry brush technique was used. In this technique the brushes wiped almost dry of paint before application, leaving a grainy, chalk like texture on the cellulites.

 He later says that the drawings and art are only half of a successful animation, what does he say on the other half?

 -The equally important other half is the music.


How many frames make up ‘The Nut Cracker Suit’

-20,000 frames.

Wednesday 1 May 2013



-Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner

FRED QUIMBY



Frederick Clinton "Fred" Quimby (Saturday, July 31, 1886 – Thursday, September 16, 1965) was an American cartoon producer, best known as a producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards. He was the film sales executive in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry.
Quimby was born in Minneapolis, and started his career as a journalist. In 1907, he managed a film theater in Missoula, Montana. Later, he worked at Pathé, rising to become a member of the board of directors before leaving in 1921 to become an independent producer. He was hired by 20th Century Fox in 1924, and then MGM in 1927 to head its short features department. In 1937, he was assigned to put together its animation department.

CHUCK JONES

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters. Three of these shorts (Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc?) were later inducted into the National Film Registry. Chief among Jones' otherworks was the famous "Hunting Trilogy" of Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1951–1953).
After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

TEX AVERY

Frederick Bean "Texas/Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) and born in Taylor, Texas. He was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Droopy.