Harvie Krumpet

Harvie Krumpet is set in 1922 in Poland when a little boy (Harvie) is born, it is all about his life. It was made in 2003 and is 22 minutes long.
The characters in Harvie Krumpet are made using plasticine and cardboard, they are the size of wine bottles because Adam Elliot has a tick so the scale of his models are bigger to make it easier for him o make them without ruining them. All of his characters have a tick or another disorder so they are like the director. The sets are made of wood, some of the sets are; his house, his school and a boat.
The style of the animation is much like Adam Elliot's other animations. This is his signature style they have; bulgy eyes with bags under them, their ears are a funny shape and they stick out and their bodies are all out of proportion.
Harvie Krumpet is funny but also sad. for example when his parents die it is sad but then you find out they get frozen then they are naked and riding their bike.
I think it won the Oscar for best animated short in 2003 because of the unique style of the movement and different emotions it uses.
Other similar animations are: Vincent by Tim Burton, Mary and Max by Adam Elliot, Pingu by Otmar Gutmann and Food by Jan Švankmajer.
Sites used:
- www.wikipedia.org
-www.youtube.com
Books used:
-Cracking Animation

Monty Python animation

In Monty Python the animations are made by Terry Gilliam, he uses a technique called still image, stop motion. This technique doesn't need a computer, it is all done by hand. They use cutout still images, these images have been cut out of a magazine. It is made by taking a picture of an image made of cut outs and then moving them and taking another picture, when this is done over and over again and played in quick succession they appear to be moving. It can create a smooth or a jerky effect depending on how big the movements are between the pictures you take.

This animaiton is surreal and funny because of the images it uses. For example there are giant cats, giant hands, killer cars and the faces of all of the people are funny shapes. It is also funny because of what happens in the animation and the sounds that the different things make.

Sites used:

- http://www.youtube.com/

Books Used:

-The Animators Handbook

-Monty Pythons Animations

whiteboard animation

Whiteboard animation is created by drawing an image on a whiteboard, taking a picture, slightly changing the image and taking another picture. This process is repeated until the animation is finished. This piece also uses some live action of him drawing it.

It is funny because with the whiteboard you can create whatever image you like without limits. It can also be scary is the images have scary features.

They use this sound becuase it is very arcade game like, which ties in with the images.

Sites used:

- www.youtube.com

Nuca animation

At Norwich University College of the Arts we made this metamorphosis animation. First we were given a word and we had to draw that word, my object was an eye. Then we all rotated our pictures and let the person next to us copy them, i then got an apple. We then had our start and finish pictures. We used layout paper so we were able to see through the page, we placed our start and finish pictures on top of each other (using a peg bar to keep them in place) and drew a 'middle frame' which would be halfway in between the eye becoming the apple. After that we then had to draw the other frames, for this we placed our first picture on the peg bar and moved it a little bit towards the middle frame. We created lots of these until the first picture had become the last picture. After we had drawn all of the frames we went over them in pen so they stood out more. We then used a rostrum camera to take two pictures of each picture, we shot them in twos to make the film last longer. Because we had all used each others pictures and a 'finish' we could then morph the first picture all the way back round to the same picture again.

After that we made a zoetrope animation. We got a strip of 18 rectangles for us to draw in to create an animation. We were told that we had to create a simple design, we used the same technique of tracing over the original drawing but moving it slightly to create the illusion of movement. The design had to be simple because if it wasn't it would of been hard to draw the same thing each time. The first and the last frame had to be the same so that when the zoetrope was spinning it played the animation over and over again without a jump in the middle where the start and end frames were different. To make the movement clearer some people coloured them in so it stood out more, we also outlined it all in pen so that it was clearer.

Sites used:
- www.youtube.com