Drawn animation

What is Drawn Animation?:

Drawn animation is an image that is drawn directly on the reel of film using a number of tools, techniques, and methods to create animation. This skips the entire process of cel animation, photographing and video sequencing or the more modern process of digital version.

The advantages and disadvantages of drawn animation:

The advantages of drawn animation that it is easy to come up and create images when doing hand drawings with uses of a pencil and if they made mistake they could simply rubbed it out to fix it. The disadvantages of drawn animations that it takes time to draw the scenery and characters all in one frame and the drawings have to be similarly accurate to the one another  to  run the sequences smoothly when rolling on to film.

Drawn animations used in media:

The oldest Disney animation film, Bambi, Disney set up a small zoo at the studio with animals to let the animators focus on drawing the structure and movement of animals that could relate on the lines to produce each frame of the film including with facial expressions and child friendly design.  

Drawn Animation also can be used in the Music Media, for example the Music Video of A-ha's "Take On Me"  was produced by Michael Patterson who is an American film artist, teacher and a commercial film director that specialise in TV spots and music videos. This video was produced with the use of pencil sketch animation or live action combination called rotoscoping. It is a technique where a live-action footage is traced over frame by frame to give the characters realistic movements. There are 3,000 frames were rotoscoped and took 16 weeks to complete.

Experiment: 
In this experiment i've produced a life drawn animation based on my fighters from my martial arts club. This is where I could visualise and sketch every motion of the techniques performed in each frames took over 16 to complete. The frames are edited by the used of iMotion to produce the animation.

Claymation

What is Claymation?:

Claymation is a form of stop animation using clay. Claymation involves using objects or characters sculpted from clay or other mouldable material and then taking sequence of still pictures that are replayed rapidly to create illusion of movement.  

The advantages and disadvantages of Claymation: 

The advantages of clay animation that clay is a very adaptable that can be moulded and shaped in to anything beyond imagination the creators can come up with. Disadvantages of Claymation that the production time and cost to create feature-length Claymation films is too much compared to other forms of animation because the same characters may need to be sculpted hundreds of times to develop what they will do or say depending on the length of production and varieties of materials are required to produce them.

Claymation used in media:

In Tim Burton’s movie, “Nightmare before Christmas”, the filmmakers constructed 227 clay puppets to represent the characters in the movie with Jack Skellington having around four hundred heads, allowing the expression of every possible emotion during the motion in each frame.

Claymation can also be used in the music media, for example the Music Video of Love Automatic's "Nightmare" was produced in Claymation by Lee Hard Castle who is Writer, director, and animator that aims to make the world’s first claysploitation a genre that mixes horror and gore with clay animation.




Experiment:

In this experiment I've produced an animation based in clay by using the iMotion app for filming and editing the frames in stop motion. Characters are designed out of clay which is a and the story is about a zombie playing fetch with his dog with a ball. 

What is Dystopia?

Dystopia:

Dystopia is a place, state or landscape that causes citizens of human or other beings to feel misery, anxiety, oppression, terror and corruption within the future. The society involves freedom are restricted, propaganda controlling citizens, citizens placed under constant surveillance and sometimes an illusion of a perfect utopian world. This forces citizens to live in a dehumanized state where they have fear of the outside world and the natural world is banished and distrusted.


Types of Controls Dystopia:
 Most dystopia society works in different ways to present a world in controlling citizens by oppressive social control  and the illusion of a perfect society. Here are types of controls:

• Corporate control - This involves one or more large corporations to control society through products, advertising and media. Examples of films are Running Man, Hunger Games and Minority Report.

• Bureaucratic Control - This involves controlling citizens by a mindless organisation through relentless regulations and incompetent government officials. Example of film is Brazil.

• Technology Control - This is were citizens are controlled by technology within the society through computers, robots and scientific means. Examples of films The Matrix, Terminator and I, Robot.

•  Philosophical/Religious control: This is were citizen society are controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through dictatorship or theocratic government. Example of film is  V for Vandetta.