Animation and Graphics

• Using real life / photograph / film and tracing each frame (1) to create a life like motion / cartoon effect (1).

• Objects are traced over to produce a cartoon effect animation.

• Tracing/drawing around/over an image

• Gives a cartoon like appearance / creating a life like motion

• Photographing/Filming live/real action, by tracing each frame with a small change to create a life like motion.

• Live actors are filmed. Frames are then traced over to produce a cartoon effect animation.

• Move an object a small amount between taking photographs of it

• Using still images and making them appear to move, by moving an object a small amount each time between taking photographs.

• An example of stop motion animation is Clay animation

• Clay animation is very time consuming as it took 5 years to make the Wallace and Gromit film.

• It uses stop motion animation by moving a object taking a photo and repeating this process.

• Must have idea of a small change between each frame/picture, e.g. Moving an object a small amount each time between taking photographs / Making a slight change to each picture

• When you play the pictures/frames back it appears as if the image is moving.

• Claymation - Clay figures are photographed, moved
  and photographed again. This is repeated since each photograph forms a frame that can be played in sequence to produce an animation.

• Computer/software generates, the in-between frames, between two key frames or start and end frames.

• The process of getting the computer to create the in-between frames to smooth out the animation

• Key frame (flash) animation technique used to get the computer to generate the in-between frames.

• The animator could draw the start and end points

• Previous frames are still visible in order to

  • help plan the next frame

  • track motion of an object

• Each frame in an animation is produced whilst several frames before are visible to help the animator track the motion of an object.

• Allows an animator to track the frame-byframe motion of an object

The process by which the eye is fooled into thinking that still pictures are moving.

or

The human eye / retina / brain continues to see an image for a short period after the image has disappeared

or

The name given to the animation technique where multiple images blend into a single image to create the illusion that objects are moving. Also called an afterimage.

An animator sometimes uses Grouping to combine separate objects to animate them at the same time.