Animation works with the persistence of vision, which is a phenomenon that occurs within the eye that allows an afterimage (or image burn) on the retina to last for a 25th of a second even after the image has disappeared, this occurance helps create the illusion that is motion picture and through study it has been revealed that the average person would see up to 12 images per second
Although the more traditional animation styles were heavily hand drawn pieces, as time has moved on the different techniques and methods of animation have evolved and expanded to
Traditional Animation (or more commonly known, Hand Drawn animation) are drawn entirely by hand with each individual frame having to be drawn one by one. Animators using this style usually have to try and keep each frame looking consistent, due to this the framerates for hand drawn animations seem slower as more individual frams are use for each animation. Here's an example of traditional animation used really well in "Dragon's Lair".
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| Dragon's Lair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3XNQja0H7I |
Cel Animation is quite similar to Traditional Animation however each individual element drawn are all on seperate layers, this allows for elements like the background and scenery to only have to be drawn once. Not only does this technique save a lot of time in comparison to Traditional animation but it allows for more complex animation as elements that might otherwise clash can be drawn on a seperate level now. The cartoon Johnny Bravo was one of my favourite shows on Cartoon Network when I was a child and the Cel Animation used in this I believe is a good example of what I described.
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| Johnny Bravo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exe0IEB3hKs |
Cut-out Animation makes use of cut up shapes and moves them around for each frame. Several shapes are usually used to make up a single character, with the more being used the less frigid the animation seems however a losing pieces can be a major set back for animation unless spares or replacements are made. Although incomparison to the aforementioned animation styles, this one may not be able to attain the same quality of fluid and lively motion but not nearly as much time has to be comsumed using this technique. South Park is probably the best example I can provide that utilises Cut Out Animation as it is incredibly popular and over the years the quality of it has improved drastically.
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| Pilot Episode of South Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAqP-ESq2bA |
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Cartman's Bane Impersonation - Like I said, the quality has improved dramatically since its early days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTYmuHatJ14 |
The Rotoscope Animation technique is one that traces over live action footage (video and/or photographic), because this technique makes use of actual movements, once traced they still seem incredibly lifelike and can be used as a base for one to integrate their own art style. An example of an art style being integrated after the
use of rotoscope could be Kanye West's music video for the song "Heartless". Personally this is my favourite of his music videos although the song itself isn't.
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| This style is very smooth and simplistic compared to a lot of other rotoscope videos I have seen in the past, it is very neat whilst still retaining detail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0tTeuUVhU |
As technology has progressed over the years, Digital Animation has become more and more prominent; often in the forms of Flash or 3D animations. Flash animation can basically utilise each of the aforementioned techniques but it they are solely based on computers. 3D usually consists of first 3D models and either reshaping, re-positioning or moving them in between each frame.
Parallax Shirt example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-lju2xDAnE
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