Early Animations

Fantasmagorie - 1908 

Fantasmagorie was an early cell based animation made using a camera and a chalk board. The images where very basic and the animation it's self was rather choppy. 

 

Gertie the Dinosaur - 1914

Gertie the Dinosaur was a cell based animation that used cells that where hand drawn, as well as segments of live action recordings. The actual animated parts where much smoother then its predecessors.

Steamboat Willie - 1928

Steam boat Willie was a cell based animation done by Walt Disney it had the fluid movements of Girtie but it also had something Girtie didn't have, sound. 

History of Animation

Animation over the years has evolved in many ways.

Stop motion is where you take models or glay which you place in a manner in which you want take a photo, then move the models slightly then take another photo and repeat until you are done with the animation.

While South Park (by Trey Parker and Matt Stone in 1997) is more of a vector animation now it first started as a stop motion animation. 

There's cell animation where in order to get movement each frame of animation is had drawn. Each frame will have a slight alteration to the last image and when played in quick secession it gives the illusion of movement.

Disney now tends to do more 3d animation for their movies now but when they started they where excessively cell animation. The Hunchback of Notre Dome (Walt Disney Feature Animation/ 1996)

There's Vector/ Flash animation which can be approached in a cell animation way of you can use the tools of the vector program to move the images you have drawn in a puppet like manner.

Nyan Caxx (Redminus 2011)

3d animation is where you make a 3d model and move it in a 3d world which you have made.

RWBY "Yellow" Trailer (Rooster Teeth Productions 2013)

 

Introduction

Name

Hello my name is Andrew Hampton. I have been drawing since I was very young. I have practiced a vast amount of art forms from pencil and paper to sculpture welding. I pride myself on being a mildly decent comic artiest and fledgling animator. I am moderately versed in Paint Tool Sai and Manga Studio and the Adobe products.

Major

My major is AAS in Computer Graphics

Goals in this class

My goals for the class are to get as much knowledge from this class as possible to be better equipped for my future in Animation.

Where will I be continuing my education?

I haven’t decided on a university to move on to yet, but I plan on having a better idea of where I will be going towards the end of the semester.

Favorite Animation
I've never really been very good at picking favorites. But some of the animation's I've enjoyed include but are not limited to: Adventure Time, Lupin the III, RWBY, Gundam in it's many incarnations, and Samurai Jack.

Where will I be in 10 years?

I hope to find myself enjoying myself as an animator or a moderately successful comic artist.

Fantasy vacation

I want to start with a nerdy expedition to Japan to see the Studio Ghibli Museum, a shrine, a castle, the Akiabara District, visit several of the strange bars and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Then go on a food tasteing frenzy in South Korea and see some of the sights. Then visit Germany and take in the sights, visit the museums, and eat eat the foods that I can get here but how they are supposed to be made.

Pets
I currently own two cats, Howie and Shark. But I would like some big dogs in the future, Huskies or German Shepherds. I doubt I will get them seeing as I lack the energy and time to give them exercise or play as much as they want.