tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91266101258949945902011-07-08T10:33:30.062-06:00Learn to animate and create your own classic animation, one frame at a time.Andrew Jaremkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07781060305332803073noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125OneFrame-CreatingClassicAnimationhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126610125894994590.post-40226399112654663562009-12-11T19:25:00.019-07:002009-12-13T19:09:35.973-07:002009-12-13T19:09:35.973-07:00

A phenakistoscope is an animation toy from the 1830s that takes flat artwork and turns it into a short animated movie.You spin the disks and look through the slots, which act as a shutter. In a modern variation, the slots are on the artwork disk. You mount the disk on a pivot and spin the disk while looking through the slots into a mirror.Here's a 12 frame phenakistoscope that I designed:Right

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"Dance of the Dolls" is a thoroughly mixed production format movie made with the aid of my program StopMotion Station.The producers, Johnson Imagineering, have kindly let me embed the movie here. They show us what can be done with a vision, imagination, and a liberal dose of digital technology. Shall we dance?If you have a movie you've made with the help of any of my software, I'd love to see it.

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The subtitle of this book is "Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation" - which almost sums it up. I'd go further and add "Essential" to that subtitle. Click on the image, or on the following link, to read a substantial excerpt from Directing the Story on Google Books.If you've opened up the book preview (it'll open in a new tab or new window), look at

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I've just found out about a new online magazine devoted specifically to stop motion animation in all its many guises. Stop Motion Magazine will be published monthly and is free to view or download. The August 2009 issue is available now!The 48 pages include interviews with Stephen Chiodo, Ron Cole, Justin and Shel Rasch, and Misha Klein. (I admit that I have to read the interviews to find out who

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Tony White is an animator and teacher who is passionate about classic drawn animation - created one frame at a time. Every animator should see his ode to classic animation: Endangered Species.I wasn't able to find an online biography of Tony White, but this excerpt from his book, Animation From Pencils to Pixels, will tell you a little about him:"Along my career path, I have studied with some of

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When you think classic animation, you think cartoons. To do classic cartoon animation you really need a way of holding your drawings in alignment ("registration") and seeing what you've already drawn while you're making the next drawing.The simplest registration system is "corner registration" - you just line up the corners of your stack of paper. Don't laugh at it - two time Academy Award

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And now the result of the lockdown: here's the movie. The audience enjoyed it at the party, laughed at the right places, and gave it a good round of applause. I like what I did; the virtual cutout animation lets me use squash, stretch, motion blur, and transparency with cutouts. The "electric arc" that the pencil uses to open my head is "virtual progressive" animation - I was drawing it on a

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It's Monday May 18, 12:20 as I write this and all files are due on Quickdraw's server so the animations can be compiled to DVD. I'm glad to say I completed a soundtrack this morning - it's only mostly snores, not all snores. "Sleepyhead" is now 1 minute 30 seconds. Everybody's packing up and the tone of the place is tired but happy. I even managed a few brief blog posts, as promised. I've also

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It's 12:45 pm as I write this... I only stayed until 9 pm yesterday though the lockdown went until 11 pm. I look forward to the screening - if only because it'll be finished then!So far today I've done two shots, and I've scaled back (of course) on my ambitions - making a complete movie comes first, so I need to make sure I have an ending before I get fancy with what's in between. Here's a frame

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Following my resolve: it's just 12:45 mountain daylight time and here's a post. Writing a bit about what I'm doing should be a nice break from the work - although it would be very easy to forget.Here's me in the QAS classroom, set up so my notebook feels more like a desktop machine. Animators are everywhere today! (Photo by Alan Ferguson)And here's a screenshot of what I'm doing - I've set up my

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The first part of the Quickdraw Animation Lockdown starts in two hours; I'm excited! I've been preparing - some preparation is permitted by the rules; see the first Lockdown post. Some preparation is technical and some (for want of a better word) artistic.Technical - I've made sure that the computers I'm using will play together politely. I'm animating with Photoshop and my programs Stopmotion

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Alan Ferguson (Quickdraw Animation Society's Digital Production Coordinator) and I made Air in 2007. Alan had been working on a CG eye for a project with a sculptor and I had been playing with Photoshop filter treatments of time lapse clouds. He suggested we combine the two ideas and see where the comibination would take us.Air is the result; it plays back on a miniature screen in the sculpture's

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I've set up a Google Alert for the phrase "make your own animation" and every day I get links to new pages on websites and new posts in blogs. Some of the links only use part of the phrase - like "your own" or "make your" - but there's always some interesting stuff. (You should definitely set up a Google Alert for anything that interests you!)Once in a while, great stuff shows up that might have

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I've finally uploaded a "higher quality" video to YouTube - and I like the results. The upload is my abstract animation texTTure (2008) which was screened at Quickdraw Animation Society's GIRAF 4 animation festival.I made this movie by saving sequential frames from Photoshop 4 and Photoshop 7, then processing images with Photoshop filters and compositing elements together. I animated the wipes

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Some animations (and, for that matter, movies generally) have been criticized for their violence. Some violence is funny - slapstick, and other kinds of physical comedy. Some is gruesomely fascinating. But the deeper question is, why is it? What makes it so? Is it part of our human equipment or is it learned?CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks took the question on in their April 25, 2009 broadcast with

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Or maybe it's just a new class of animation software. Since I last posted, I've been working on new programs for the Mac and Windows, another web site, and animating using my new programs.The animated GIF above (which links to my new site, How-To-Make-Your-Own-Animation) is an example of this new type of animation. I don't have a good phrase that sums up what's going on, but it's all about

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Deburuman showed us how he shot classic animation on film. Javan Ivey is creating a wide range of animation using whatever technology is appropriate and affordable. These two documentaries from IndyMogul.com show him in his do it yourself animation studio. Highly inspiring!Do It Yourself Animation StudioEasy Tips for Stop Motion AnimationIndyMogul.com's main focus is low budget live action movie

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"For making animations, you need 8mm-movie-camera and patience. Then you can animating." - DeburumanDeburuman is an artist and animator who has generously posted many of his works on YouTube. I've chosen Parts 1 and 2 of his "How to Make an Animation" series for this post. The narration is in Japanese but there are English subtitles.The only thing that has changed since 1989 when Deburuman made

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"I've picked the most expensive medium that takes the longest time. ... The reward is - you can play God." - Richard WilliamsHow do animators work, and what are their challenges? Animation documentaries can give some answers, and posters have been busy loading the videos to the Web. I've collected some of them here, and put all of the parts of multi-part documentaries onto single post pages. All

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In 1985, Academy award winning animator Jimmy Picker came to Quickdraw Animation Society for an animation workshop. Mr. Picker won his Oscar in 1983 for "A Sundae in New York". Part of the fun of this movie is that the characters are all modeled on real or fictional New Yorkers; the singer on the then Mayor of New York, Ed Koch.Jimmy Picker has uploaded more of his animation to his YouTube

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I am fascinated by our growing scientific understanding of our senses, brains, and minds. Today I present some reports originally presented on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's weekly science radio program, Quirks and Quarks. (If you're interested in the world around you, I think you should listen to it every week.) These reports impressed me and give me insights into how I'm making movies.

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Kyler Kelly made this movie, Crit, using my program StopMotion Station for the animation. He's letting me post it here; I think it's inspiring!To rate or post a comment on this movie, go to Crit on YouTube.Crit blends live action and animation into a complete story. Kyler says he used Premiere to combine all the elements to make the finished movie. It's a movie "from the heart"; he's a student

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Quickdraw Animation Society held their third Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (GIRAF) November 2 -3. I try not to let one pass without having an animation in the festival, so I edited a movie out of animations created by the instructors and facilitators at Quickdraw's Zanymation events. The movie (ta-DAA!): (Summary) Animation compilation, various artists, sound design and editing

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The November 10 Zanymation Workshop on Stopmotion Station at QAS went well and was a lot of fun for the seven people attending. Here's a quick look: (Summary) In the first part of the workshop, we animated to a soundtrack. I managed to animate and talk at the same time. We took a break and Alan Ferguson animated his version in about 30 minutes.I had thought to have two segments in the workshop:

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Here's the 45 second promo video for my Saturday, November 10 2007 workshop at Quickdraw Animation Society.(Summary) In the workshop we'll create an animation in sync with a soundtrack and see how to copy motion from one movie to another. I'll answer questions about StopMotion Station and we'll talk about your animation challenges.The cutout animation is fresh today. I was (of course) using the

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