1950s - 1970s animations (British & American cartoons)

Yogi Bear is a family cartoon character, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and appeared in comic books, TV and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. Yogi Bear was the first breakout character created by Hanna-Barbera and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound.

The Pink Panther is a comedy series or film featuring a French police detective, Inspector Clouseau. The series began with the release of The Pink Panther (1963). The role was originated by Peter Sellers. Most of the films were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards, with theme music composed by Henry Mancini.

One of the best cartoon I have watched when I was younger and I think the main reason why I loved it so much is because of the pink panther lol.

Wile E. Coyote (also known  "The Coyote") is a character of Looney Tunes who always chases the Road Runner and his also a character from Looney Tunes who is trying avoid the coyote. They are a duo of cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. The characters (a coyote and Greater Roadrunner) were created by animation director Chuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Bros.

The Flintstones is an animated, American television sitcom that was broadcast from 1960, to 1966 on ABC. The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The Flintstones were about a stone age man with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. The Flintstones was the most financially successful animated franchise for nearly three decades and until The Simpsons came out.

Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera animated TV series which ran from 1961 to 1962 and for at least 30 episodes that was broadcasted on ABC. Reruns then were then broadcasted on channels like Cartoon Network and Boomerang. This TV series really took off and it so popular even now !!!

Oliver Postgate was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He created and wrote of some of Britain's most popular children's TV programmes. Including Pingwings, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, they were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s.

Hanna-Barbera Productions were an American animation studio that dominated American TV animation for nearly four decade. It was formed in 1957 by animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (creators of Tom and Jerry). Over the years, Hanna-Barbera produced many successful shows, including The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons and The Smurfs etc. 

Animation 1930s - 1950s

In the 1930s and the 1950s cartoons were huge and it was very popular back in the day and kids are still watching these cartoon till this day but people my age range were into it as if it's the games or movies of nowadays.

Some cartoon were racist and violent back in the day but I guess before, no one knew it would have an impact on society today they said that they were just cartoons. Some cartoon have still left a scar in todays society unfortunately somethings cant be undone.

It shouldn't very seriously though but I think kids are more aware now because of education of that's teaching them what's right from wrong but it is part of history to bring up the subject on how things have changed.

One of the ones that I have watched were Disney's 'pink elephants on parade' it was an interesting one to watch because it was really good for it's time and it was so creative and colourful like it was fun just to watch.

This cartoon is way behind my time I mean I don't even think I ever watched this but it looks OK for it's time though.

Produced by Van Beauren Studios and then distributed by RKO pictures, the series itself lasted from 1931 to 1933. Van Beuren was then purchased by a company in 1950 and then the characters got their name changed form Tom and Jerry to Dick and Larry.

Odd name and really unsuitable for a kids cartoon lol. Anyways it become more popular again between 1940s and 1950s.

GUMBY is made by Arthur Clokey nicknamed "Art" he created and modeled the green clay character and he was really popular for creating the character GUMBY. His career really took off in the early 1950s.

In total Art made over 230 episode!!! and it aired on TV in America with other countries airing it too. Art became a good example of someone for creating his stop motion out of clay.

I don't think in my time I watched or gone back to watch it or something I was more like watching Disney cartoon than stop motion cartoon but this GUMBY animation is interesting and I get why he is still popular to this day.

Fleischer Studious Inc, was an American animation company that is located in New York it was founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios by two brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer.

They ran their company until its inception from Paramount pictures and the studio's parent company and the distributor of its films, forced them to resign in 1942.

However Walt Disney were it's competitor and their studio became popular for the cartoon they made such as Koko the clown Betty Boop, Bimbo, Popeye the Sailor and superman and those cartton were a blast back in the day kids were going crazy over them and they are still popular to this day.
 
Betty Boop is an animation created by the brothers they created a series which features Betty Boop as a sex symbol kind of inappropriate for kids. They also created a film series which was then released by Paramount pictures. She has also featured in magazines and the merchandise was all over shops.

I've only watched one episode but not when I was young and I'm not too crazy over Betty Boop I think I prefer Dick and Larry ahem...

History of early animation and animations 1900 - 1930

There are lots of different types of early animations they were all very popular and are really amazing for its time some even go back as further as 180AD but I guess each country and over the years had their own animation which then made it world wide.

These  animation are so popular that are still around now and for example Disney's company still stands till now but with modern content however Disney is my favourite because I grew up watching Disney and I still watch the shows that are on that channel.

However there are so many types of animation such as Zoetrope, flip book  American animation  British animation, Chinese animation and japanese anime so there are types and the first animation ever made were as old as ancient Egyptian times more that 4000 years old some ever further as further as 5200.

Winsor McCay 1867–1871 was an American cartoon artist and animator he is best known for making the comic strip Little Nemo which was still around from early 1900s till about 1930s. For some reason he worked under the name Silas on his comic strip.

Little Nemo is Winsor it was a comic strip and he succeeded in the time that he was still around and later changed the name of the strip from Little Nemo to In the land of wonderful dreams which caught the attention of many people kids loved it.

 He was a great cartoonist in my opinion but I don't think I've watched any of his stuff when I was little it's the first I've heard of him.

Lotte Reiniger 1899 - 1981 was a German film director known for making silhouette animation and she was anticipating with Walt Disney for over 10 years. She has made over 40 films over the span of her career and all she was using was her invention. 

She was also known for making the adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 and The Magic Flute featuring music by Mozart.

What she does is amazing I think I will watch some of her stuff on my spare time I seriously like the whole thing and I'm going to make one for myself because it looks fun to make.

Walt Disney and out of all the ones I've talked about he is the biggest and the most popular,

he was an animator, cartoonist, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and he did a lot more than the jobs I just listed.

He was huge even when he just started back then and his company is still huge he is known around the world and classed as a cultural icon because of his success worldwide.

 Walt Disney is one of the major motion picture company int he entire world last year Walt Disney had annual revenue of 45billion!!!

As an animator and an entrepreneur, He was known as a film producer he and the people he worked with created one of the world most iconic fictional characters that are still around today such as Mickey Mouse. He has also won more than 20 academy awards from a total of 59 nomination, including four in one year.

Georges Méliès was a french illusionist and film maker he is famous for leading many technical development in the earliest days of cinemas. He was really good at making special effects the first to do time lapse photography, hand painted color, multiple exposures, dissolves in his films.

People even referred to him as a Cine magician because of his ability to manipulate and  transform through cinematography. His best works are A trip to the moon and The impossible voyage.

I was surprised when I read about him because of how he was at editing especially for it's time they had no software to be honest I didn't think anyone can edit until our time but this guy did.

Some of his work is really funny.

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and was generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film.

Fantasmagorie, was by French director Émile Cohl. It was screened for the first time on August 17, 1908 at Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris. Cohl later went to Fort Lee, near New York in 1912, where he worked for French studio Éclair and spread its animation technique to the US.

Animation techniques (October 2013 - April 2014 ) (class excerses)

Pixelation is a stop motion technique where actors are like used as an object and every step they take just like any other animation had to be taken a photo off one wrong move and it will ruin the whole thing. Pixelation animation can be sometime be called as 'live animation' because the actor because like a puppet.

I would suggest for this type of animation that you buy a professional animation camera or software because you must be really still and depending on the acting that your doing it require skills and patience.

Such movies have used this animation technique like The secret adventures of Tom Thumb and Bolex Brothers. This type of animation has been around a long time since like the 1900s.

Norman McLaren (1914-1987) he is a Canadian Animator and he introduced pixelation in his Oscar winning film Neighbours (1952) and also the film The Chairy Tale (1957). He instead of making a series of drawing he used actors and placed them in a series of positions in front of the camera which took a lot of time and effort. But he is popular to this day.

This one was really interesting and cool as well.

Its a good example of a pixilation animation. I also tried it to view my animation scroll down below.

For this animation lesson I was totally un-prepared because I didn't really have an idea of how am going to do my animation to be honest if I had more time I would have done better and thought of better idea but because I didn't want to work in a pair. I had an idea that could have been better produced better and with more time I know I could have done a better job than this.

so I decided that I would want to use one hand where I used my other hand to make my clay figure and to take pictures with it so basically I've been using one hand for this this whole time.

But before I started doing my short animation I had a look at a few different animation which were really cool and I like animation with a message so Norman Maclaren's animation called neighbours is my favourite because I thought it was really clever.

But I know I would never be able to make something as good as that so I went with my idea and used i stop motion to take a step by step photo as I go along so it was easy but I did work by myself which was hard because as I moved I also took a photo with my other hand without trying to move.

I want to create something like this one day  because it's now my favourite animation technique and it looks really cool.

 

Model animation is stop motion animation sequences and its designed to make models look 3D but in 2D you can make model sheets to show the same character but in different angles.

It's one of the most popular animation type today and you can create model animation with just about anything whether its clay, yourself or even with dolls.

It is an animation that a manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object can be just about anything and it has each movement you make had to be individually photographed. Whether the object has moveable joints or not you can still create stop motion with any object you like.

Some animation cameras have onion skin which will make it easier for to do your animation in but it's still taking a photograph of it and if you've got your camera still you should be able to do it just fine.

There are so many animations that was made from modelling such as King Kong that was made in 1993.

 Another example would be James and the giant Peach which was made in 1996.

And the final example would be GUMBY which was made in 1995.

 and of course there are loads more examples of model based animation.

I did also produce one but I don't know what happened to it I think I exported it to the wrong file format but I do have screenshots of it.

This isn't it but it was one that I did before I don't even know what I was doing...

Time-lapse animation is a technique where the frequency at which the film frames are captured (aka the frame rate) is much lower that that which will be used to play the sequence back.  When you replay this sequence at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and lapsing.

This is hard to do from the looks of it but I haven't attempted it before I would've loved to if I had more time to do I mist the lesson on this which but I know what it is and how to make it nothing stopping me from making one in my spare time.

Eadweard Muybridge 19th century photographer is the one who originating the technique this is by far one of my favourite animation and what I like about it is the fact that it does look like a video and I have to try it out at some point it will look great as a gif.

 

Now that I've seen it I have made one before in Preston park for photography but it was for a different lesson but I'll upload it anyways.

  
Cut out animation is a technique used for producing animation using flat shapes or words and it has to be something you can cut out like paper, fabric, card etc.

Not much is known about exactly when was the earliest animation but we know it was Quirino Cristiani from Argentina who originated the idea. He made the world earliest surviving cut out animation.

Today cutouts animation are sometimes made by computers with scanned images or vector graphics compared to before where everything was literally cutout. South park is the most popular cut out animation it first made with cut outs each episode taking them months to do now just new episode get made in weeks.

I have made one for my lyric animation video its on the other post on my blog. I love this show so much it's so funny and one of my favourite animations.

Cell-based animation is where each cell is reproduced and variations are made to the next cell. This continues until there is a series of cells. Each cell is slightly different from the previous. It gives the appearance of movement, thus animation.

An excellent example of cell-based animation is to watch any of the Disney movies especially Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. All cells were hand drawn and painted.

Path-based animation where the first (original) cell or frame is drawn and the last cell or frame is drawn. The software then fills in the gaps between (tweening) these two frames, giving the appearance of movement. An example of path-based animation is the ballroom scene from the Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast. 

I remember watching these best cartoons ever...

Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, is deformable which means it is made of a clay.

This animation comes from cel animation and stopmotion and all of them are similar to each other they are produced by recording each frame back in rapid succession before the viewer.

This and other moving images from zoetrope to films and games, creates the illusion of motion by playing at over 10/12 frames per second.

An example of clay animation.

Early types of animation (September 2013 - October 2013)

Early types of animation

We see animation as a video but it's the moving images that makes us think it's video when it's not. Moving images are when every image has been took after single move you make and it has to be accurate and entertaining at the same time. It should be just as creative and unrealistic as a cartoon because that's what animation is about by doing this creates a good animation.

Animation are one of the things of entertainment that has existed for hundreds of years and it has changed overtime. Now 3d animations are more complicated and longer than ever some have become one of the highest grossing films of the year.

The early types of are:

• Persistence Of Vision.
• Zoetrope.
• Phenakitoscope.
• Kinetoscope.
• Mutoscope.

Persistence of vision is relevant to animation like Eadweard Muybridge, who did early studies in photography that led animation and motion pictures. 

The concept is simple, he used flying images so he can create the illusion of motion from still images only. The images are presented at an average rate of 18-24 frames per second.

Here is an example of one:

Zoetrope is a 19th century optical toy that is in a cylinder shape with loads of pictures of the inner surface that if you rotate it or spin it the images on it look like their moving animation.

Below is an example:

Phenakistoscope is one of my favorite early type of animation because is it like persistence of vision where the animation uses an illusion of movement. A great example of someone who made Phenakistoscopes as early as 1893 was Eadweard Muybridge.

 An example of his work below:

A few other examples of Phenakistoscope that I found on the internet:

This is really cool I like the faces on it I would like to make one like that.

This one has been made into a gif.

Kinetoscope - this I'm definitely familiar with because I had a look at one in a museum before and I really liked it but it can get annoying when you look at it too much well it is for me anyways.

Kinetoscope it's quiet complicated how this is been made but it's a motion picture device that people can only see if they are seen it through a peephole. It is an early motion picture device that was mainly designed for one individual at a time to view a film.

It wasn't a movie projector but the idea of a projector came from this and the images show from a strip of images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. It was first invented by Thomas Edison as early as 1888 and then alot of others at that time were making Kinetoscope movies.

Examples of Kinetoscope below:

Some museums still have this but it's very rare to find now.

Mutoscope is an interesting one because I never knew something like this even existed it's like Kinetoscope that Thomas Edison made in 1888 but this one came after it was made by Herman Casler in 1894.

Mutoscope is an early picture motion device and only one person can view it at a time but it didn't project on a screen it's cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope. It worked like a flip book and played movies such as Charlie Chaplin etc.

It quickly became popular and then developed in to a coin in the slot machine as some people call it or even a (peep-show). 

This was more popular than the Kinetoscope because more were around at the time places where it attracts families in such as the park, the beach and museums.

 Examples of Mutoscope below:

 Inside a Mutoscope as you can see it works like a flipbook.

Roughly how a Mutoscope works.

What you see in a Mutoscope and Charlie Chaplin was really popular at the time, people would line up to see this. 

it's very rare to find nowadays I'm not sure if it still exists in museums.