Random clip off a programme i found on youtube. Quite interesting to see how far animations come.

Early animation..

Zoetrope (180 AD; 1834)

The zoetrope is a device which creates the image of a moving picture. The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the prolific inventor Ting Huan (丁緩). Made from translucent paper or mica panels, Huan hung the device over a lamp. The rising air turned vanes at the top from which hung the pictures painted on the panels would appear to move if the device is spun at the right speed.

The modern zoetrope was produced in 1834 by William George Horner. The device is essentially a cylinder with vertical slits around the sides. Around the inside edge of the cylinder there are a series of pictures on the opposite side to the slits. As the cylinder is spun, the user then looks through the slits to view the illusion of motion. The zoetrope is still being used in animation courses to illustrate early concepts of animation.

The magic lantern

The magic lantern is the predecessor of the modern day projector. It consisted of a translucent oil painting and a simple lamp. When put together in a darkened room, the image would appear larger on a flat surface. Athanasius Kircher spoke about this originating from China in the 16th century. Some slides for the lanterns contained parts that could be mechanically actuated to present limited movement on the screen.

Thaumatrope (1824)

A thaumatrope was a simple toy used in the Victorian era. A thaumatrope is a small circular disk or card with two different pictures on each side that was attached to a piece of string or a pair of strings running through the centre. When the string is twirled quickly between the fingers, the two pictures appear to combine into a single image. The thaumatrope demonstrates the Phi phenomenon, the brain's ability to persistently perceive an image. Its invention is variously credited to Charles Babbage, Peter Roget, or John Ayrton Paris, but Paris is known to have used one to illustrate the Phi phenomenon in 1824 to the Royal College of Physicians.

Phenakistoscope (1831)

A phenakistoscope disc byEadweard Muybridge (1893).

The phenakistoscope was an early animation device, the predecessor of the zoetrope. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer.

Flip book (1868)

The first flip book was patented in 1868 by a John Barnes Linnet. Flip books were yet another development that brought us closer to modern animation. Like the Zoetrope, the Flip Book creates the illusion of motion. A set of sequential pictures flipped at a high speed creates this effect. TheMutoscope (1894) is basically a flip book in a box with a crank handle to flip the pages.

Praxinoscope (1877)

The praxinoscope, invented by French scientist Charles-Émile Reynaud, was a more sophisticated version of the zoetrope. It used the same basic mechanism of a strip of images placed on the inside of a spinning cylinder, but instead of viewing it through slits, it was viewed in a series of small, stationary mirrors around the inside of the cylinder, so that the animation would stay in place, and provide a clearer image and better quality. Reynaud also developed a larger version of the praxinoscope that could be projected onto a screen, called the Théâtre Optique.

History of Animation, Wikipedia, Accessed on 31/5/10, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation

a short from aardman animations...

plasticine stitches..

This is a really cool tutorial i found on how to create a stitched together look with plasticine or clay. I used this technique on one of my models which I will write about in my sketch book.

video i talk about in my sketch book to do with my 3rd animation:

New friends..

After making the character i wanted to try out the movements i could do with him. I therefore incorperated a ball aswell as then i could move his hands and eyes to interreact with it (haven't mastered the ball bounce yet tho):

I have decided to look at character development and seen as i have already made alien type things i have decided to stick with that theme. Here is what i created the other morning:

I then added arms:

Animating..

Yesterday i started animating with plastercine :D

I did 4 yesterday, starting very simple with basic movement like rolling and squashing and moving on to adding in different colours and shapes and finally adding in characters.

First Video- Orange plastercine just looking at simple movement

Second Video- Red plastercine just looking at simple movement

Third Video- Red and blue plastercine, looking at 2 colours and transformation

Fourth Video- Characters (Aliens)

Another really amazing animation using clay. This is the sort of thing i want to do just to try animating (obviously won't be anyway near as good as this).

Cool little animation i found on youtube:

Claymation..

This is a guy i found on youtube who does claymation, heres some of his little vids:

Aha

Found the text im using to back up my project :) i think:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/22/public-libraries-overhaul-proposed

Stop animation with lego

Major Project

For my major project i wanted to do something that would relate to little models as i really enjoy making these.. Designing a set for a theatre production of a fairy tale in a miniature model version was a first idea, which i quickly went off and decided to do a stop animation for tv.. not sure about this part yet whether it should be an ad or just a short animation like creature comforts.. or pingu or wallace n gromit hmmmmmm...

Concrete angel by Martina Mcbride

"If you don't listen, you won't hear them" NSPCC ad campaign

"Don't lose control" NSPCC ad campaign

NSPCC adverts

Marks Story

Making the world a better place..

stop child abuse

-NSPCC

-Child's Voice Appeal

Research for elective

Photographers : Digital Photography Elective

Jeff wall

Nancy Davenport architctral

Angela Strassheim

Alexander Apostol digitally manipulated built environment

Doug Aitken

Sam Taylor wood

Miriam Backstrom staging of life in her art

Mathew Buckingham

Roni Horn

Thomas Struth

Stephen Shore

AES+F group

Yto Barrada personal history landscape factorys

Armando Andrade Tudela

Bill Viola

Gillian Wearing

Tacita Dean

Douglas Gordon

Valerie Belin

Walead Beshty

Frank Breuer

Olaf Breuning

Phill Collins portraits

Kelli Connell portraits of couples

Sharon Lockhart

Aernout Mik

Sharon Core

Gregory Crewdson staged film stills,Suburban home becomes cinematic.

Andreas Gursky

Gerhard Richter

Candida Hofer

Thomas Demand

Wolfgang Tilman

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla

Cao Fei

Sue De Beer

Alicia Frankovich

Marine Hugonnier

Laura Letinsky

Peter Fischli/David Weiss

Richard Wentworth

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Jane and Louise Wilson

Richard Adams black and white roads American

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Lewis Baltz parking lots/b/w industrial and colour offices

Martin Parr

Boris Mikhailov figrative

William Eggleston

Philip-Lorca diCorcia figurative

Caroline Shepard

Paul Graham

Larry Clark

Rineke Dijkstra portraits

Pierre Huyghe

Gabriel Orozco

Nobuyoshi Araki

Mathew Barney

Shigeru Takato

Vanessa Beecroft

Sindey Sherman

Nikki s lee

Lyn Hershman

Sophie Calle

Nan Golden

Tracey Moffatt

Tierney Gearon

Helen van Meene

Loreta Lux digital

Miklos Gaal

AES & F

Ryo Ohwada

Idris Khan

Martina Sauter

Eva Lauterlein

Nick Knight

Daniel pflumm

Paola Pivi

Fiona Tan

Rut lees Lusenburg

Tony Oursler

Philippe Parreno

Jack Pierson

Miklos Gaal

Erwin Wurm

Mariko Mori

Pipilotti Rist

New brief..

Making the world a better place..

-no litter

-no crime

-more happy people.. and so on..

The effects of the e waste :(

E-Waste

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/12/chinese_town_becomes_graveyard_of_christmas_past.php

quite like the looking glass..

"The time it takes a driver to glance down at the instrument cluster is typically 0.777 seconds. It may not sound like long, but when traveling at 60 miles per hour, this equates to a distance of 20.8 metres travelled without the driver’s eyes being on the road ahead. Our head-up displays will enhance road safety by helping drivers keep their eyes and their attention where they belong – on the road." (http://lightblueoptics.com/products/light-speed/)

Light Touch

Light Touch

Looks really modern and new but whats the point of it?!

Mac Funamizu

http://petitinvention.wordpress.com/about/

Mac Funamizu is a web/graphic/industrial designer working in Tokyo, Japan.

In his blog he posts his dreams and thoughts about future technology (his ideas look really cool!) for example:

The Looking glass

2010

yikes!