History of animation

Thinking about histories…

Histories is not single but plural, because there are different stories, many people tell history in a different way

Tony fry-design critic

Animated practice is subjective

Strive for personal vision

Motif for the lecture-the wolf man by Tim hope 1999

Animator who worked in a hand crafted low fi way with computers

Goes back to the convergence of animation and when a time of realism was becoming a goal in animation.

Zoetrope (1834)- invented by a mathematician

Different because it allows a multiple audience, invents cinema- everyone sees it but it doesn’t restrict the viewer so only one person can see, a few can at a time- multiple audience, everyone at once

Can only animate short loops- empathises quality of movement

Pixar version- something that seems modern but goes back in history

Same could be said for social media etc..

Technology is giving us new way of vision

Things that were driving innovation was changing

Technology was changing how we think about ourselves

Other inventions of injecting movement into fixed form…

Rota scope (1915)- device used to trace live action characters

Introduces slow life like animation

Hard to make anything smooth if tech is not used

Rotoscoping is something we did in production workshops, I can say I don’t like it, it was time consuming and tricky and I don’t think the effect is as good and not what I thought it was going to be.

Windsor McKay

Realism: looking at everything that’s stable, normal ordered world

Likes the idea that someone has character because its integrate object. You can predict the behaviour

We can have a story that has a predictable pattern

Stabilising a mode of experience

Embrace of character, cause and effect and narrative, also tends towards closure of texts.