Clay animation

creating completely handmade work which creates a more personal connection with her customers. The marks left in the clay, reflect the thought and time Flagella puts into each piece. Handmade pottery is the result of the years of practice and patience spent mastering the techniques on the potter’s wheel and is the direct result of the potters love for ceramics. Flagella mainly uses porcelain clay for her pottery because of its workable creamy consistency. The majority of her works have surface…

jars, and table wares. Many of these were nile-silt pottery or clay. (Hope 2001, 30-32) Other materials used for making pottery included water for shaping, tools to improve pottery characteristics, and fuel to fire the pottery to make permanent and hard. Water was used from the Nile and fuel was found in straw or dung. Egyptian potters preferred Nile alluvial clay and marl clay. Alluvial clay was found on the Nile’s flood plain. Marl clay could be found near calcareous shales, mudstones, and…

Animation is brought to life through images, voices, objects,and sketches as well as music using motion or movement through frame by frame sequence. QUote Animation have been around since the biblical ages. For example; In Egyptian Hieroglyphics characters are in motion by the way they are throwing their spears, Woolly Man-month are pulling larger stones, and slaves building the Pyramids. Another example of animation is cave covered in art work of cavemen slaying Dinosaurs.…

Animation and live action are two very different types of films, each kept in a different world and rarely cross over into the other. Cartoons and the animated characters that are crafted for them live in a world that defies logic, normal limitations, and have their own physical laws; it is a world only limited by the imagination of the artists and their tools. The real world, one that people are more familiar with, knows the restrictions and limited possibilities of what a person can do in this…

Film is a huge industry in our daily world. We are constantly looking forward to the next big film coming out, or relishing in classic flicks, such as for me Dirty Dancing. We base our holidays off movies such as Christmas everyone watching Elf, but let’s be real that movie is great year around. What makes a film so intriguing, that we can’t take our eyes off the screen? A good plot, good actors, but also the special effects, can really define a movie’s greatness. “The art of visual effects…

Iowa native Ron Clements released his animated movie Moana in 2016. It is a Fantasy/Adventure movie that was adored by the many that gazed at it. As someone who adores animated movies, the enjoyment I had was baffling. Moana explores a young girl's dream to adventure, which was bashed by a demigod who ruined humanity. This movie mixes the art of adventure and the art of war as the young girl tries to restore humanity itself. This leads to the theme of stick to what you believe in no matter what…

How to Make Your Own Animation from Drawing Today animations have become a part of our culture and are used for commercials, cartoons, and movies. They are different based on how they are created and the purpose behind the animation’s story. When talking about how animations are created, there are multiple ways to make them. Some approaches to start off creating one is done by using computer graphics or drawing it out on paper. Usually what is involved in an animation is a story that draws in…

Hayao Miyazaki, an influential Japanese film director who has produced animated films that still remain popular both in Japan and worldwide. Throughout this essay, one of his most famous animated films “My Neighbor Totoro” will be discussed, exploring the religious elements used in the film, based on a comparison of Shinto and Buddhism. This should help us understand how Miyazaki delivers the message that nature is sacred. To understand the religious elements of the film, we should discuss the…

What is the purpose of the work? To inform, persuade, entertain, describe, or analyze? -The purpose of this passage the author wrote was to inform us on how people want the characters in animated movies to have the right actors as the voice, not only white people. What is the writer’s point of view? What does the writer want the reader to do? -The author wants us to see that all these years on movies with characters with unique cultures are being voiced by actors who are white and viewers want…

that they look different. Why does Gumby look different from Bambi? It narrows down to the animation. Films look different because of the style; it differs from artist to artist. Popular varieties include anime, CGI, 2D animation, stop-motion, Paint-on-Glass, and the list goes on. There are several kinds of animation, but the fundamental styles are drawn, cutout, stop motion, and computer. Drawn animation “is a sequence of drawings that, when filmed, give the impression of movement”, according…