THE HISTORY OF ANIMATION
The World history of animation – Stephen Cavalier Art in motion: Animation Aesthetics – Maureen Furnis. A history of Motion Graphics – Michael Betancourt The Vatican to Vegas – A history of special effects Hollywood Flatlands – Esther Leslie The history of animation – Charles Solomon
The Wolfman – Tim Hope (1999) Graphics animation that went against the ‘realism’ theme of its time its simple cartoon drawings mapped in a 3D Studio Went on to work with the Mighty Boosh, Later used in PlayStation 2 for an ad in edited form, video is strange,“Kiss my white, chalky lips”. Disturbed, Goes through different phases, begins in observatory when he transforms the entire piece changes too. Absurdity, feed into the theme.
Technologies: Zeotrope that William George Horner Invented it in 1934
British mathematician this reach a mass audience participation they would view it through multiple slots this relates to similar devices such as ;phenakistoscope, praxinoscope
Rotoscope:Max Fleischer – 1915, Apparatus of capture Prior to this it was hard to draw, stable -content / slow life like movements, Fleishcher was the art director for Popular Science Monthly. Snow-white Koko the Clown – 1916, he di this with his brother joe helped make the machine
Another brother, Dave, posed in a clown suit.
Cell Animation: 1915 the was controvers over the ownership between John Randolf Bray (newspaper compic artist) and Windsor McCay (Gertie the dinosaur and little nemo in slumberland) Bray visited McCay’s studio and the recreated and patented many of the techniques.
Windsor McCay: Vaudville, comic strip & animation – Gerite the Dinosaur 1914 à
World building and surrealism Little Nemo in Slumberland (comic strip) 1905 – 1911
Gertie the dinosaur à slightly odd when considered from a narrative perspective. In Gerite the Dinosaur (on Cartoon Network) we can witness various tendencies and clashing.
/ Apparatus of Constancy
Tension between ART and INDUSTRY – Marueen Furniss
Contemporary 3D Rotoscopes: Pixar – Disneyworld Studio Ghibili – Ghibli Museum.
