Flash Face Link

Here is the you tube link to my flash face.
Could not upload entire face. 

http://youtu.be/K-z8StOyONA

The Twelve Principles of Animation

The Twelve Principles of Animation

Squash and stretch

Anticipation

Staging

Follow through and overlapping action

Straight ahead action and pose to pose

Slow in and slow out

Arcs

Secondary action

 

Timing

Exaggeration

Solid drawing

Appeal

Oldest and Newest Forms of Animation

Oldest Form of Animation

In my opinion the oldest form of animation is the cave paintings found from thousands of years ago. They are the earliest way by Humans to attempt to capture movement on images to create the allusion of motion which is animation as described by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a way of making a movie by using a series of drawings, computer graphics, or photographs of objects (such as puppets or models) that are slightly different from one another and that when viewed quickly one after another create the appearance of movement. An example of some ancient animation is cave paintings that depict animals running with many legs being drawn to depict motion. Some more recent but still primitive forms of animation include the infamous flipbook, also known as the kineograph. It was patented by John Barnes Linnett in 1868, the kineograph operated by drawing a series of pictures that depicted movement of characters or changes in the environment, the user of the flip book would begin rapidly flipping through the pages and that would create the allusion of motion. Although it is commonly believed that animation must be on film or computer generated, as the Merriam-Webster dictionary says above, animation does not have to be generated, it can be art work or any kind of drawing as long as it attempts to convey the illusion of motion. Animation has taken many different forms over the centuries from pottery to modern day films, but it has always been with us and it has always remained important.

Newest Form of Animation

In my opinion the newest form of animation is the animation used in the film World War Z. The film was released on June 21, 2013, some of the lead actors included Brad Pitt and Matthew Fox. The film was directed by Marc Forster and it was based on a book by Max Brooks.

The plot of World War Z depicts a world where everything is fine and life is good in the beginning but quickly the situation deteriorates and Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) must quickly get himself and his family to safety from the global zombie apocalypse. Once he accomplishes that Lane is quickly called into action to try to find a cure for the outbreak that is killing millions. He finds himself in South Korea to try to find the origin of the infection and although he does not figure out where it came from he is told to go to Jerusalem and talk to someone named Jurgen Warmbrunn. He is told that Israel escaped the worst of the infection as Warmbrunn had learned months earlier that Indian soldiers were fighting the undead and the warning Warmbrunn had given was taken seriously. Gerry Lane is forced to evacuate Jerusalem after the undead manage to break the quarantine and enter the city, he later ends up at a WHO facility where he realizes that the zombies only attack those who are not terminally ill. This revelation leads to a defence that Humanity uses against the zombies and Lane is finally reunited with his family as the world slowly returns to normal.

I chose this film as an example of the newest form of animation because in one scene when Gerry Lane is in Jerusalem and the zombies are attacking the city, hundreds of zombies begin piling up one after another like insects trying to get over a wall that was erected around the city and I thought that it was very well animated, it seemed very realistic despite knowing that scene couldn't have been real and it must have been animated.