Animation Techniques/Principals

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Rotoscoping!
Rotoscoping is a technique, patented by Max Fleischer in 1917, where animators trace live-action movement, frame by frame. The source film can be directly copied from actors' outlines into animated drawings, as in The Lord of the Rings (US, 1978), used as a basis and inspiration for character animation, as in most Disney films, or used in a stylized and expressive manner, as in Waking Life (US, 2001) and A Scanner Darkly (US, 2006).

heres a cool example of rotoscoping i found on youtube.



stop motion animation is probably my favourite method/technique of animation as i feel it produced a visually great experiance. it is created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time to create the illusion of movement.



Clay Animation: uses figures made of clay or a similar malleable material to create stop-motion animation. The figures may have an armature or wire frame inside of them, similar to the related puppet animation (below), that can be manipulated in order to pose the figures. made famous really by the Aardman animation studios who created Wallace and Gromit.