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Animation

 

            
            
            
             Animation has historically been produced in two ways. The first is by artists creating a succession of cartoon frames, which are then combined into a film. A second method is by using physical models, e.g. King Kong, which are positioned, the image recorded, then the model is moved, the next image is recorded, and this process is continued. Before the advent of the computer animation, all animation was done by hand. Considering that each second of animation contains 24 frames (film), it isn't difficult to imagine the tremendous amount of work and time that has to go into creating even the shortest of animated films. .
             Key Frames:.
             Considering the immense amount of work that has to go into the making of an animation sequence, the drawing or painting is usually done by more than one person. After all a movie can be anywhere up to 1 ½ hours long which equates to approximately 130,000 different frames, beyond the means of even the speediest artist. A storyboard is laid out; the senior artists then go and draw the major frames of the animation. These major frames are frames in which a lot of change takes place. They are the key points of the animation. Later, junior artists draw the frames that lay in between. This way, the workload is distributed and controlled by the key frames. By doing work this way, the time in which an animation can be produced is cut dramatically, depending on the number of people working on the project. Work can be done simultaneously by many people, thus cutting down on the time needed to get a final product out. .
             Cel Animation:.
             Another advance which helps out tremendously in the process of creating animations is called cel animation. When creating an animation using this method, each character is drawn on a separate piece of transparent paper. A background is also drawn on a separate piece of opaque paper. Then, when it comes to shooting the animation, the different characters are overlaid on top of the background in each frame.


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