![]() Every animated film starts with an idea, a story, and a character. Pixar was the first company to popularize the 3DCG method, starting with the release of Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated theatrical feature film in 1995. It’s the most uncommon because of how labourious and time consuming it is to create the objects and sets, and to take individual pictures for every frame. ![]() This form involves taking individual photographs of physical models, objects, puppets or people as they are moved around, one frame at a time. This is the oldest form of animation and one of the most interesting. Because of this, it has become the most common form of animation used in the film industry today. Also, powerful animation software allows for in-betweens, lighting, building crowds, environments and more. ![]() This form of animation only became possible with innovations in computer graphics in the 1990s, and has become massively popular since then. The computer graphics allow the animator to create photo realistic images that Classical Animation can’t. While technical tools are making it easier and more accessible, some of the greatest animators alive still employ pencil and paper to draw their animation. The principles of drawing remain the same, but the technology has changed. With the advent of technology, pencils were traded in for stylus’ and paper exchanged for Cintiq’s and Wacom tablets. This is the oldest and simplest (but not easiest or cheapest) method, having been around since the beginning of the 20th century. While there are many forms of animation, we are going to focus on the three most prominent. ![]() Based on the persistence of vision, animation, like all film, is an illusion of fluid movement, when in fact it is a series of static drawings moving so quickly, twenty-four frames a second, that they give the appearance of movement. Animation is not the art of making drawings move, but the art of drawing movement. ![]()
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