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- 1. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Learning outcome: • 1.Understand the techniques of 2D animation. • (P1, M1, D1) • Starter: Using the handout provided, in pairs; • List platforms where animated content is shown to audiences. • Match the platforms to the specific animations that appear there. • Identify audiences for the animations.
- 2. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • What are we going to do today? All of you will be able to identify where animation can be shown to audiences. Most of you will be able to research and explain 2D animation and its techniques. Some of you will be able to comprehensively explain the techniques of 2D animation in an illustrated article with examples consistently using subject terminology correctly.
- 3. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • E4 are hosting their online E4 ident competition for new and established animators. As part of this competition you are required to produce a 10 seconds long ident animation with their logo, following the E4 brands identity and style. In order to comply with their brief, you must use a 2D animation technique, an animated character and the soundtrack provided by E4 in your final ident animation. The theme, topic and software is your choice, as long as you stick to E4’s requirements. • For this challenge you are required to develop a short 2D animation with soundtrack. Minimum duration - 10 seconds. The animation should be of a cartoon character, suitable for ages 12+.
- 4. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Animation Techniques • For Unit 34 Task 1 you need to research and explain 2D animation, its history, techniques and development to gain and demonstrate an understanding that can help in your creative decision making when creating your own animation productions. • To complete this task you are required to produce an illustrated magazine article entitled ‘2D Animation’. Consider the presentation and layout of the article by researching and being influenced by the layout of existing magazine articles. • The second article needs to explore Television Idents, their design and purpose, as well as ident’s opportunities, limitations and creative communication. • As these are magazine articles, you must think carefully about your layout and design. Every page should include images, pull quotes and your article should be written in a creative, fluent way.
- 5. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and the illusion of change by means of the rapid succession of sequential images that minimally differ from each other so that the human eye sees only the motion.
- 6. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Animation Techniques-1: Flick books • A flip book or flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Watch this short video: • https://youtu.be/iExiCGV7jzI
- 7. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Animation Techniques 1: Flick books • Task 1: Using the sticky notes provided you are to create an animation using between 20 and 30 images.
- 8. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Animation Techniques 2: Cel animation • When someone says the word "cartoon," what we usually imagine is cel animation. Cartoons today rarely use the pure cel animation of the past, instead employing computers and digital technology to help streamline the process. • A cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate used as a medium for painting animation frames. It is transparent so that it can be laid over other cels and/or a painted background, then photographed. Look at the cel examples.
- 9. 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Working at first on paper, a traditional cel animation team will plan out and sketch the animated frames (roughs) or the key positions in a sequence before sketching in every frame of the sequence (inbetweening). Each drawing is then inked and coloured onto transparent sheets or cels - from which the technique gets its name. The transparencies are then photographed, in sequence, on top of a painted background.
- 10. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Sometimes numerous sheets are layered on top of each other as more than one character or object is moving. To give perspective, multiple cels can be arranged on separate planes in a technique called multi-plane animation. Watch this video. • https://youtu.be/YdHTlUGN1zw • Task 2: Look at the examples of animation cels being distributed now.
- 11. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Animation Techniques 3: Rotoscoping …is an animation technique used by animators to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, when realistic action is required. A horse's gallop traced, from a series of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge.
- 12. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • The rotoscope technique was invented by Max Fleischer in 1915, and used in his groundbreaking Out of the Inkwell animated series (1918-1927) known simply as "Fleischer Process" on the early screen credits, and was essentially exclusive to Fleischer for several years. The live-movie reference for the character, later known as Koko the Clown, was performed by his brother (Dave Fleischer) dressed in a clown costume. • Originally conceived as a "short-cut" to animating, the rotoscope process proved to be time consuming due the precise and laborious nature required in tracing. • Task 3: watch this video and make notes. • https://youtu.be/bfXAlqx0H1g
- 13. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Animation Techniques 4: Drawn on film Also known as direct animation or animation without camera, is an animation technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock, as opposed to any other form of animation where the images or objects are photographed frame by frame with an animation camera.
- 14. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • There are two basic methods to produce animation directly on film. One starts with blank film stock, the other one with black (already developed) film. • On blank film the artist can draw, paint, stamp, or even glue or tape objects. Black film (or any footage) can be scratched, etched, sanded, or punched. Any tool the artist finds useful may be used for this, and all techniques can be combined endlessly. • Large formats such as 70 or 35mm film may be preferred for their relatively larger working area, but direct animation is done on 16 mm or even Super 8 mm film as well. • Mothlight is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, released in 1963. The film was created without the use of a camera. • In this short animation film, the "boogie" is played by Albert Ammons and the "doodle" is drawn by Norman McLaren. Made without the use of a camera, Boogie-Doodle is a rhythmic, brightly coloured film experiment.
- 15. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • Animation Techniques 5: Photographic stills • Photographic Stills animation also called 'photoanimation' it's a very old animation technique • https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =ZVrYyX3bHI8
- 16. Traditional 2-d Animation Production Techniques Unit 34 • For Unit 34-Task 1 you need to research and explain 2D animation, its history, techniques and development to gain and demonstrate an understanding that can help in your creative decision making when creating your own animation productions. Use and explain examples to aid in your explanation of the key areas. • To complete this task you are required to produce an illustrated magazine article entitled ‘2D Animation’. Consider the presentation and layout of the article by researching and being influenced by the layout of existing magazine articles. • In your article, include any advantages and disadvantages you can think of. • The article should be created through a combination of Photoshop and Google Docs and the final Google document submitted via Turnitin. • Use this session to begin your illustrated magazine article entitled ‘2D Animation’. • Consider the presentation and layout of the article by researching and being influenced by the layout of existing magazine articles. • Animation Arena