Task 3- Contemporary Uses

Computer Games

Side Scrolling

Sonic The Hedgehog 4

• Made by Sega and was released on October 7th 2010
• The character was programmed using the sprite technique, and that new programming was added from the original such as new obstacles.
• was intended to emulate the original Sonic The Hedgehog titles on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
• I feel that sonic is well known around the world and that these type of sonic games are very popular. Furthermore, the reason I chose Sonic is because Sonic the hedgehog is probably the most popular side scrolling game in the gaming industry, and one of the first.

Isometric

Diablo

• Made by Blizzard and was released on December 31st 1996
•  each visual element was broken down into smaller pieces, called tiles, of a standard size. These tiles were arranged to form the game world according to pre-determined level data - usually a 2D array.
• was made for mainly online purposes.
• I feel that the game looked pretty good for its time, furthermore the reason I chose it was because Diablo is the most known Isometric game.

Flash

Happy Wheels

• Made by Jim Bonacci, Jason Schymick and was released on June 4th 2010
• made using a verlet physics engine for flash, which then created the overall game.
• Inspired from other ragdoll-like games.
• I feel that the overall game is fun to play and quite challenging, overall, the reason I chose to do this game is because it is very popular in its genre.

Anime

Street Fighter 4

• Made by Capcom, Dimps and was released on July 18th 2008
• While Street Fighter IV features models and backgrounds rendered in 3D, the gameplay remains on a traditional 2D plane, with the camera having freedom to move in 3D at certain times during fights, for dramatic effect, similar to the Street Fighter EX series Capcom produced with Arika.
• The experience provided by Super Street Fighter II Turbo became the main influence for the Street Fighter IV development team.
• Overall I feel the game was quite original during the time and felt like the ultimate anime fighting game rendered with a 3D like effect.

 Abstract 

Tetris

•  Made by Alexey Pajitnov, Vladimir Pokhilko Developers: Sega, Nintendo Research
• Released June 6th 1984
• Was inspired by a childhood game 
• Overall I feel that the game was really popular because it was one of the first arcade games to be created

Music Video

See you again

• Created by Wiz Khalifa and was released March 17th 2015
• The song is featured in the 2015 action film Furious 7 as a tribute to Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in November 2013. 
• Reached number 1 in 95 countries 
• Overall I believe the song is popular because its dramatic and sad at the same time

Film and TV Advertising

Kellogg's coco pops 

• Cocoa Krispies first appeared in the United States in 1958
•  In 1991, the mascot became Coco the Monkey. In 2001, Snap, Crackle, and Pop returned, and they remain the product's mascots.
• Was inspired by other chocolate cereal before becoming their own brand
• Overall I believe that coco pops is one of the most popular cereal out of the other Kellogg brands

TV Programmes 

Doctor Who

• Released 23rd November 1963
• Created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber, Donald Wilson
• The show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it has become a cult television favorite.
• Overall I believe that the show made British TV that more popular, and the reason I chose it was because its one of the most popular TV shows out there.

Mobile Phone Apps 

Angry Birds

• Released December 2009 by Rovio Entertainment
• Angry Birds has been praised for its successful combination of addictive gameplay, comical style, and low price.
•  It has been created using the Box2D engine
• Overall I feel that Angry birds changed the mobile gaming industry with its popularity 

attractors 

• Website attractors are used to lure people into clicking onto their website
• This could be from special offers, freebies, breaking news and news letters
• Overall I think that using attractors is a good way of attracting more people 

Banner ads 

• A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server.
• This could be from price discounts to special offers
• Overall I feel that banner ads are not that much useful since most people do not trust some banner ads

Interactive content

• Interactive content is a good way on attracting traffic because sometimes it can be entertaining
• A good example of this is mini games
• Overall I feel that using interative content would attract the most traffic out of the three, as it gives the person something to do

Task 2- Animation Pioneers

Eadweard Muybridge

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• Eadweard James Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
• He emigrated to the United States as a young man and became a bookseller. He returned to England in 1861 and took up professional photography. learning the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions.
• Muybridge took enormous physical risks to make his photographs, using a heavyview camera and stacks of glass plate negatives.

                                           here is an example of some of his work.

overall I think that his work is wondrous and that it would of taken large amounts of time to create, especially in the 19th century.

Auguste and Louis Lumiere

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• The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean were the first filmmakers in history. They patented the cinematograph, which in contrast to Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties. Their first film, Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon, shot in 1894, is considered the first true motion picture.
•  Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds.

here is an example of some of their work.

Winsor McCay

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• Zenas Winsor McCay  was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo  and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.
• In his drawing, McCay made bold, prodigious use of linear perspective, particularly in detailed architecture and cityscapes. He textured his editorial cartoons with copious fine hatching, and made color a central element in Little Nemo. His comic strip work has influenced generations of cartoonists and illustrators. 

Here is an example of some of his work

Ladislas Starevich

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• Vladislav Starevich, was a Russian and French stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film (i.e. The Beautiful Lukanida (1912)). He also used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. 

here is an example of some of his work

Walt Disney

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• Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur,cartoonist, animator, voice actor, and film producer. As a prominent figure within the American animation industry and throughout the world, he is regarded as a cultural icon, known for his influence and contributions to entertainmentduring the 20th century. As a Hollywood business mogul, he and his brother Roy O. Disney co-founded The Walt Disney Company.
• As an animator and entrepreneur, Disney was particularly noted as a filmmaker and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created numerous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Disney himself was the original voice for Mickey. During his lifetime, he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record of four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.

Here is a tour of Walt Disneyland from when Walt Disney was alive

John Halas and Joy Batchelor

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• Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company founded by John Halas, a Hungarian émigré, and his wife, Joy Batchelor.
• From 1936 Halas ran a small animation unit that created commercials for theatrical distribution, and Batchelor responded to his advertisement for an assistant. Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films was founded in 1940, and during World War II the company made about 70 animated propaganda short films for the British Ministry of Information.

Here is a small cartoon that was created by john and joy

Hanna-Barbera

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• Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. Was an American animation studio that dominated American television animation for nearly three decades in the mid-to-late 20th century. It was formed in 1957 by former Metro Goldwyn Mayer animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (creators of Tom and Jerry) and live-action director George Sidney in partnership with Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems television division. The company was sold to Taft Broadcasting in late 1966, and spent the next two decades as a subsidiary of the parent and its successors.
• For thirty years, Hanna-Barbera produced many successful animated shows, including The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, and The Smurfs, earning eight Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, among other merits. 

here is a famous show called tom and jerry that was made from hanna-babera productions..

Cosgrove Hall

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• Cosgrove Hall Films was a British animation studio founded by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall; its headquarters was in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Cosgrove Hall was once a major producer ofchildren's television and animated programmes; Cosgrove Hall's programmes are still seen in over eighty countries. The company was wound down by its then owner, ITV plc, on 26 October 2009.

this video shows how each model was created

Industrial Light & Magic

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• Industrial Light & Magic is an American Academy Award–winning motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the film production company, Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when Lucas began production of the film Star Wars. For many years, particularly during the widespread inception of computer graphics in film during the 1980s, ILM was considered the leading industry standard production house for computer graphics in film; many studios other than Lucasfilm sent scenes to the studio for CGI. It is also the original founder company of the animation studio Pixar.

This video shows how ILM create there characters

Pixar

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• Pixar Animation Studios, or simply Pixar, is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio is best known for its CGI-animated feature films created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc.cofounder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, a transaction that resulted in Jobs becoming Disney's largest single shareholder at the time.

here is an animated short that is created by pixar, that shows how detailed there animation can be

Task 1-Animation Techniques

Optical Toys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD0ovANHdqQ

A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one due to the persistence of vision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4B3FHHt_k8

The phenakistoscope was an early animation device that used a spinning disk of sequential images and the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3He_t28q04s

A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.

The image below shows what I drew in order to make the animation.

Cell

 an example of cell animation techniques

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11b-ukuav90

Generally, the characters are drawn on cells and laid over a static background drawing.

The video below shows what I have accomplished when morphing using onion skinning.

Keyframe

simple walking animation using the key frame technique.. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47AK4mUIv7I

A key frame in animation and film making is a drawing that defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition.

a quick animation that I made when using the key frame technique.

Video

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The picture or video is filtered with a different color or shade, for example the image above shows what filters are available when editing the picture.









The video below shows what I have been able to do when picking a filter for the video

Stop-Motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSzCLf8tjP4

Stop motion  is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object or persona appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. 

The video above shows what we did as a class when making a stop motion animation. We first stood still when the picture was taken then moved again whilst another picture was taken, and so on until we got the stop motion.