Animation Movies & Games

Disney is the worldwide famous name in the Animated and cartoon section of movies. It has produced a large number of animated and cartoon movies till date. Today, there are more than 150 animated Disney movies have been produced and distributed that bring smile and enjoyment to all the children throughout the world. One of the great things about Disney movies is that they are appealing to both the kids as well as the adults and this has led to the immense popularity of the Disney movies. Each Disney movie is usually accompanied with a Disney movie book. These books are intended to generate the reading habits among the children. They are published under the Mouse Works banner and include a simple version of the story.

Most of the Disney movie productions are worth watching any number of times. Some of these movies are regarded as the classics based on their popularity. These animated movies expose the kids to emotions, morals and other learning’s by telling the story in exciting and interesting manner. Most of the leading characters in the Disney movies are designed with lots of hard work and exceptional creativity. These characters inspire awe and wonder augmented by the colour, splendour and style. Disney has been at the forefront of the evolution and spread of animated movies. They have played a huge role in the success of animation industry today.

Among the various movies produced by Disney, some are all time favourites of kids. It includes The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, Toy Story, Aladdin, Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella, The little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In addition to these, there are some other Disney movies that are equally mesmerising are the sequels to the Lion King, Lilo and Stitch, Dumbo, Pooh and others.

Stop-motion animation refers to the animation that is created by manipulating the real-world objects physically and photographing these objects one frame of film at a time for creating the illusion of movement. There are different types of stop-motion animation available that are named on the basis of type of media used for creating the animation. The Computer software is widely applied for creating such type of animation.

Puppet animation – This animation basically involves the stop-motion puppet figures that interact with each other in a structured environment as compared to the real-world interaction in the model animation. The puppets usually have an armature inside them for keeping them in shape and steady. They are also used for restricting the movements at particular joints.  Some of the popular examples of usage of Puppet Animation are Nightmare Before Christmas (US, 1993), The Tale of the Fox (France, 1937), Corpse Bride (US, 2005), and the TV series Robot Chicken. Puppetoon is created by using the techniques developed by George Pál. They are puppet-animated films that involve the usage of different version of a puppet for different frames as compared to simply manipulating the single existing puppet.

Clay animation – This animation is also called as plasticine animation and it is often abbreviated as claymation that makes use of figures constructed from clay or a similar malleable material for creating stop-motion animation. These figures consist of wire frame inside of them that can be manipulated for giving the pose to the figures. On the other hand the figures can also be constructed entirely of clay where clay creatures can be morphed into various different shapes. Some examples of clay-animated works comprise of The Gumby Show, Morph shorts, Wallace and Gromit shorts The Trap Door and others. It also includes the films like Chicken Run and The Adventures of Mark Twain.

Cutout animation – This type of animation is produced by moving 2-dimensional pieces of material like paper or cloth. It includes the examples such as Fantastic Planet, Tale of Tales, etc.

Silhouette animation – This stop motion animation is a variant of cutout animation which involves the backlighting of characters and they are visible only as silhouettes. Examples of the Silhouette animation include The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Princes et princesses.

Model animation – This refers to the stop-motion animation that is created for interaction with the live action world. In fact, it exists as a part of a live-action world. It includes the various procedures such as Intercutting, matte effects, and split screens that are used for the blending the stop-motion characters or objects with the live actors and settings. It can be observed in the movies such as Jason and the Argonauts and King Kong.

Go motion – This refers to a variant of model animation that makes use of various techniques for creating motion blur among the frames of film that is not present in the traditional stop-motion animation. The technique was discovered by Industrial Light & Magic and Phil Tippett for the creation of special effects scenes of the film The Empire Strikes Back and Vermithrax from Dragonslayer.

Object animation – This animation refers to the application of regular inanimate objects in stop-motion animation which is against the specially created items.

Graphic animation – This animation makes use of non-drawn flat visual graphic material such as photographs, magazines, newspaper clippings etc. They are sometimes manipulated in frame-by-frame for creating movement. The graphics in these animation remains stationary and the movement of stop-motion camera is used for the creation of on-screen action.

Pixilation – This animation makes use of live human actors as stop motion characters. It allows for the creation of numerous surreal effects such as disappearances and reappearances.  It allows the people to appear sliding across the ground, and various other effects. Some examples of pixilation are The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb and Angry Kid shorts.

Motion capture or motion tracking refers to the procedure of recording the movement and translation of that movement on to a digital model. It is applied in entertainment, military, medical and sports applications. In case of filmmaking it points to the recording actions of human actors, and using it for animation of digital character models in either 2D or 3D computer animation. It may be called as performance capture when it includes fingers, face, and captures delicate expressions.

The motion capture sessions involves the sampling of the movements of one or more actors many times per second. With the application of the modern techniques, motion capture records the movements of the actor only instead of his or her visual appearance. This animation data is then mapped to a 3D model when the model performs similar actions as that of actor.

The movements of the Camera can also be motion captured in order that a virtual camera in the scene will tilt, pan, or dolly around the stage as determined by a camera operator and the actor is performing at the same time. Thus, here the motion capture system captures the camera and props and the actor’s performance. This permits the computer generated characters, images and sets to get the same outlook as the video images from the camera. The data is processed by a computer and movements of the actor are displayed. It also offers the desired camera positions in regards to objects in the set. This procedure of retroactively obtaining the camera movement data by using the captured footage is called as camera tracking or match moving.

There are various advantages of Motion Capture over traditional computer animation of a 3D model. It is more rapid obtaining the real time results. It can reduce the costs of key frame-based animation in entertainment applications. It is easy to recreate the complex movement and realistic physical interactions like secondary motions, exchange of forces, etc. The amount of animation data is extremely large as compared to conventional animation techniques.