Computer animation

DreamWorks and Pixar have been long time rivals in the movie industry. Many people argue over which of these animation studios is the better of the two. Pixar is the better animation studio because they are known for many box office hits like Up, Toy Story, and Monsters Inc. Although hits are all DreamWorks produces, they have only won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for Shrek and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Pixar has won "…Best Animated Feature Oscar seven of the past 12…

Hayao Miyazaki it is a Japanese animator that very influential in animation area. Thus, there are many featured film that he made such as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and many more and every of his film that his made there are several of similarity that can be found on hisfilm such as the technique that he uses, the styles and the concept of his story. However, Hayao Miyazaki had his own uniqueness when he made an animation film even though it has a similarity from with his other film but…

Improving Animal Behavior Studies through the use of Robots and Computer Animation Animals learn by example, whether it is a group of ducklings following their mother’s lead to leap into a pond or a two year old child repeating swear words that a parent spoke during a brief road rage incident. Examples on how to behave in order to survive are learned at every stage of life. These learned examples on how to find food, interact socially and on proper mating behaviors are vital to a species…

Judith Halberstam has a very unique perspective on animated childrens films. She made up her own term called “pixarvolt”. The way she explains pixarvolt is “a new genre of animated feature films that use CGI technology instead of standard linear animation techniques and that surprisingly foreground the themes of revolution and transformation.”(Halberstam 29) In other words, she is identifying different ideas and theories within the typical animated children's film and grouping them together. It…

Robot Do Things In the 2008 Disney/Pixar film: WALL-E,. And it's good. Andrew Stanton co-wrote the film with Jim Reardon. Stanton, who directed Finding Nemo, had already had some writing and directing experience when it came to animation, and he does a good job handling this movie. The movie is about a little robot named WALL-E, which stands for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class". He is the last of his kind on Earth and just goes about his day compacting trash and collecting little…

Vincent Barbera and Francesca Calvacca. He grew up in New York City. It is written of Barbera in Bio magazine that “In 1936, he found work at the MGM studios. In 1938, he joined forces with William Hanna. Barbera and Hanna took charge of MGM's animation division from 1955 to 1957. After this, the duo formed H-B Enterprises, which became Hanna-Barbera Productions” (Biography.com, editors). Creative Innovations and Famous Works Barbera is not only an animator but he is also an author. He…

In 1911, Windsor McCay created his first cartoon, based on his comic strip Little Nemo. The silent animated short film with a running time of 10 minutes is one of the earliest ever made and its expressive character animation distinguished the film from the experiments of earlier animators. Little Nemo, 1911. https://alchetron.com/Little-Nemo-(1911-film)-45390-W The response to the film was enthusiastic. An item in the trade publication Moving Picture World, which praised the film's…

was in Honors English II, we were given a chance to study any subject freely. Of course, I jumped at the chance that I’d finally be able to start learning how to do animation. I spent hours planning on what I want to use for the soundtrack and how the video would pan out. I original thought I could pull off a basic one-minute animation set to “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin,…

The field of animation has been one of the most interesting and creative forms of film and its history goes almost all the way back to the beginning of movies. The first example is a short two-minute film called The Enchanted Drawing from the year 1900. It was not entirely animated as it included live action footage, but it was the first movie with animated sequences as far as I am aware. It consists of a man (in live-action) drawing a picture of a man's face on an easel, as well as other…

Jingnan Zhang English 3: Block Ms. Bunosky February 15, 2017 Archetypes in Toy Story One doesn’t usually watch movies and critically think about what is happening in it, but when one analyzes thoroughly, the audience can find some impressive things in the plots of these films. In the movie, Toy Story 3, the audience can clearly see a set of archetypes through the characters. Woody would be considered the hero, Buzz can be seen as the innocent person, and Lotso can be seen as the ruler/dictator…