Classic, hand drawn animation - Disney's Lion King.
Cut outs - Monty Python (see also in stop motion and in
3D. This technique crosses all barriers)
Rotoscope - Waking Life
Flip book - Keith Haring has made some famous ones.
Computer Assisted Animation (2D)
This term refers to all types of animation that use a
computer somewhere in the process.
One could argue that this means ALL ANIMATION today.
Mostly we use it to describe the tools that have come to replace pencil, paper and film, for example:
One could argue that this means ALL ANIMATION today.
Mostly we use it to describe the tools that have come to replace pencil, paper and film, for example:
Flash animations - Many TV series are now done in
Flash
Colouring and layering hand drawn animation
using a computer
Drawing directly into an animation software with a Pen
Tablet
3D Animation Techniques
3D animation- Pixar's Up, Toy Story
Stereoscopic 3D - Coraline, Avatar
CGI cut out - South Park
Motion Capture (an aid tool for 3D animators)
- Final Fantasy, Avatar, Gollum in Lord of the Rings.
Morphing (the changing faces in Michel Jackson's
Clip Black or White)
Stop Motion Techniques
Clay or Plasticine ("Claymation") - Nick Park's
Wallace and Gromit
Real Clay animation (and lots of other stuff you won't
suspect) - Jan Svankmajer's Dimensions of Dialogue
Puppet animation- Tim Burton and Henry Selick's The
Nightmare Before Christmas
Pixilation - Peter Gabriel's music video
"Sledgehammer"
Cut outs - Daniel Greave's Flat World is a stunning
combination of classic hand drawings with cut outs.
Types of Animation that are done on a light table,
shot frame by frame under a camera:
Sand animation - This is sometimes done as a performance
art, shown live for an audience, and sometimes it's stop framed into proper
film.
Oil colours - Caroline Leaf's The Street, and the
frankly-unbelievable Old Man and the Sea by Alexander Petrov.
Plasticine - Ishu Patel's Afterlife, Cage the Elephant's Aberdeen
Types of animation named after a software
Some types of animation are named after the software used
to create them.
Flash animation has come to mean a certain kind of graphic look and feel, which has also spawned the pleading request "Can you make it NOT look like Flash, PLEASE!"
Flash animation has come to mean a certain kind of graphic look and feel, which has also spawned the pleading request "Can you make it NOT look like Flash, PLEASE!"
There are also:
GIF animations - GIF is a type of file
format, used for small, light weight animations with no more than a few frames.
After Effects animation - usually means
either cut outs done in After Effects, or animation done with the program's
Puppet Tool.
Blender, Mudbox, and Maya - all names of 3D
animation software.
Pivot stick figure - A freeware for making
stick figure animations. So simple, and so popular!
Morphing is a type of animation that uses a
software to fill in the gap between two images - MJ's "Black or
White" music video.
