Sammy Bentwood Unit 10 Prep

Optimisation​ Essentially, optimisation means making the product look the best it possibly can. You’ll need to consider the purpose of the animation, and how the colour, size, frame, compression and exported file fit the purpose. Exporting the Animation​ The file format must correlate with the requirements of the brief. As this unit is concerned with producing an animation for online distribution – specifically, a phone app – you need to consider the correct export option.​ For this, you will need to compress the file you have created in Final Cut.​ Test Plan and Debugging​ Once an animation has been created, it needs to be tested and debugged.​ The test plan allows you to check that the animation runs as expected. ​ A screen test could be created in order to ascertain whether what is in the animation marries with the desired outcomes (for example, if a zombie dog attacks a zombie cat, does it actually look like this on screen?)​Screen Test​ A screen test would typically be played to a...

Uses and Target Audiences ♡ uses: - Television programmes - Children’s animations - Film, across many different genres - Advertisements - Anime and manga - Online and viral Animated Films and TV Traditionally, animated content is associated with younger audiences. Television programmes such as Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny, and Disney films from Snow White to Frozen, have been largely pitched at children (though as we know from Unit 1, these films also enjoy large audiences formed of older demographics) Disneyfication The transformation (as of something real or unsettling) into carefully controlled and safe entertainment or an environment with similar qualities British Television – Puppetry and Stop Motion Animation was popular for children in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s A number of children’s shows featured puppetry and stop motion The Simpsons and Family Guy It could be argued that The Simpsons paved the way for shows like Family Guy, due to the adult jokes embedded throughout t...

Digital Animation: Types and Techniques ♡ Types of animation: cgi (2D/3D) when digital technology and software is used to generate animated images and graphics. CGI refers to static scenes and moving characters while computer animation refers to only moving characters/scenes. 3D animation is used in a lot of blockbusters to make characters seem more rounded (eg toy story). stopmotion and  claymation achieved by moving the object slowly and photographing it - makes it seem like the object is moving by itself line drawing a hand drawn sketch that moves frame by frame so that the shape evolves and moves. Commonly used in contemporary advertising. cel animation celluloid animation - celluloid sheet, a transparent sheet onto which characters and scenery are drawn or painted, traditionally done by hand. Eg: the Simpsons. Snow White 1937, first full length animation. Took 3 years to produce. 750 artists completed 2 million sketches - film includes 250,000 drawings hand drawn not as c...

  Animation Research ♡   styles of animation: 3D. Hand Drawn. Vector. Stop Motion. Motion Graphics. genres of animation digital 3D animation Digital 3d animation characters are much faster to create and they are quite popular in the movie making industry. Using a computer software 3d animated images are used to create many short films, full length movies and even tv commercials and a career in digital 3d animation is highly rewarding. Comparing to 2D animation and the traditional approach, 3d animation models are highly realistic. clay animation or claymation   In this Claymation, pieces of clay are moulded to create characters and based on the imagination of the animator, a story is unfolded. There are oil based and water based clays available. Sometimes the clay is moulded into free forms or filled up in a wire like structure called armature. The animated characters are kept in a set and with only short movements, the whole scene is film.  anime A final charac...