Computer animation

these luxuries was animation. Some of the earliest forms of animation were developed near the end of the Industrial Revolution. Flipbook animation, one of the most influential forms of animation, was created roughly twenty years after the end of the Industrial Revolution. The idea of animation and the methods invented to make it a reality have shaped the entertainment industry into what it is today with animation being considered on-par with live action entertainment. Animation has evolved from…

Edwin Catmull’s entire life has been based around his love for animation. As a little kid, Ed would wait for Walt Disney to come appear on Sundays on his black and white 12” television. He called it the, “Disney Magic”. Walt Disney was on of Catmull’s boyhood idols. The other idol that he had as a child was Albert Einstein. He explained, in his autobiography, the reason he probably looked up to these two men. He felt that they both represented creativity, just in different ways. Disney…

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…

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…

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…

One: A Brief History of Stop Motion Animation “The Humpty Dumpty Circus” (1897) is a show to go down in history, literally. The short film by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton, founders of Vitagraph Studios, was the first American short film to use stop-motion techniques. The film featured acrobats and animals dancing within a circus that came to life. Unfortunately, no footage has survived the test of time, apart from a few archived images. The animation was created, according to Smith in…

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…

Harness your vision: In the mid-1960s, with television growing at such a rate, Cooney realized and saw a need for a children's program. Underestimate the roadblocks: Joan went through dozens of educators in order to be able to finally develop her idea for a daily, hour-long show that had good language and also happened to be very educational but also very entertaining. Despite all the discouragement that was received from both her immediate boss and the president of Channel 13. Joan found a way…

Robinson, T., Callister, M., Magoffin, D., Moore, J. (August 2007).The portrayal of older characters in Disney animated films. Journal of Aging Studies, 203-213, 12. Upon reviewing my understanding on the text, “The portrayal of older characters in Disney animated films,” the main argument that was presented was how the use and creation of older characters are either negatively or positively impacting children and how children perceive older characters in Disney films by continuing to consume…

Boo! A Madea Halloween produced by Lionsgate and directed by and started Tyler Perry is very humorous. This is a hilarious horror comedy. The movie is about the main character Madea and her friends babysitting her teenage cousin (Tiffany) on Halloween. Madea’s teenage cousin decided to sneak out and go to a frat party on Halloween and plays Halloween pranks on Madea (played by Tyler Perry) and her friends. Some of the things that make Boo! A Madea Halloween a very humorous movie is the…