Filmmaking and Animation
It would be easy for me to simply claim that we have had a long rich history of filmamking and animation, and that these two fields of production have a long life ahead. However, I needed to remember my dates, and look up at a brief history of the two in order to put my claims and facts into perspective.
These two sites gave me a beneficial, clear and interesting history of filmmaking and animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJqeJ48CPs
http://movies.about.com/od/animatedmovies/a/history-animated-films.htm
After reading those, I became aware that many contributors worked in order to give us what we have today in the movie industries. Since the 1500s, Leonardo da Vinci explained the idea of 'Persistence of Vision', and from then we have had many inventors who collaborated to create what we know today as animation, leaving us with the first publicly presented computer-based animation movie 'Toy Story' in 1995.
Clearly, we have seen many advanced animated productions in video games and movies. I am pretty sure we all know 'Avatar', which became renowned not for the new story plot, but for the intricate details in the animation, and how it appears to be something real.
These days people talk about the popularization of 3D movies and holograms....All of these things make me believe that we still have so much ahead of us. The styles we embrace may differ from season to season. But years ago no one ever thought people would have cinemas in their homes, but many people take it for granted these days.
Moving Images
Last week we looked at moving images, specifically those created for movie titles. For this assignment, I referred to all of the various movies I have watched.
This film title is for the movie 'Orphan', created by Ryan Robertson, who has a long list of film titles on his resume, including 'Catwoman', '300' and 'Twilight'.
In relation to last week's discussion, the reason why I specifically selected this film title is because it creatively represents the elements in the movie. It is graphic, with typographic animation that exemplifies the antagonist's behavior. It is grungy, dark, and gives flicks of the story plot.
The interesting part of moving images is that although we have a long history of it, it is still relatively young and has many blank pages left to be filled by the upcoming generations of designers. Moving images have been evolving into more complex productions, from 2D to 3D and with ever so expanding techniques.
This is an interview I found of a renowned Pixar director named John Lasseter, who is credible that animation will keep expanding and will persistently prevail in the world of movie making.
Tokyo Plastic
Tokyo Plastic is one of the 20 design groups that I mentioned for one of our previous tasks. Its members have produced animations for various clients, and devote a lot of their time designing characters.
Their website is here:
This video is very brief, but you can listen to one the members talk about the design group and what they do.
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