This document discusses various animation techniques and styles including 2D animation, 3D animation, and the traditional animation process. It covers topics such as character animation, rotoscoping, skeletal animation, morph target animation, cel-shaded animation, onion skinning, motion capture, stop-motion animation, cutout animation, claymation, and pixilation. The document also compares 2D and 3D animation techniques and outlines the traditional and computer animation processes from pre-production to post-production. Finally, it discusses applications of animation in fields such as advertising, education, entertainment, engineering, medicine, and more.

1. Animation =
Techniques and application

2. • Learning Objective
• •Animation techniques
• •Application of 2D and 3D animation

3. • Animation Styles and techniques
• –Character animation
• –Rotoscoping
• –Skeletal animation
• –Morph target animation
• –Cel-shaded animation
• –Onion skinning
• –Motion capture
• –http://www.alienryderflex.com/rotoscope/
• –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_%28film%29*
• –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly_%28film%29*

4. • Animation Styles and techniques
• –Digital rotoscoping
• –Motion capture
• http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGr
aph/animation/character_animation/motion_capture/
history1.htm*
• –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture*
• –http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/tooncap/*
• –
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000119/kines_
pfv.htm

5. • Animation Styles and techniques
• •Stop-motion animation
• –Cutout animation
• –Clay mation
• –Pixilation
• –Pin-screen animation
• –Puppertoon
• •Drawn on film animation
• •Special effects animation
• •Non-character animation

6. • 2D/Traditional animation
• •Traditional animationbegan with each frame
being painted and then filmed.
• •Cell animation, developed by Bray and Hurd
in the 1910s, sped up the process by using
transparent overlays so that characters could
be moved without the need to repaint the
background for every frame

7. • 2D/Traditional animation
• •The "classic" form of animation, the
"animated cartoon", as developed in the
early 1900s
• •refined by Ub Iwerks, Walt Disneyand others
• •requires 24 distinct drawings for one second
of animation.

8. • 2D animation
• •For 2D animations, separate objects
(illustrations) and separate transparent
layersare used. Then the objects are moved
by the animator on key frames.
• •The differences in appearance between key
frames are automatically calculated by the
computer in a process known astweening or
morphing. Finally, the animation is rendered.

9. • 3D/Computer animation
• •Computer generated imagery(CGI)
• •Computer animation involves modelling,
motion generation, followed by the addition
of surfacesand then rendering.

10. • 3D/Computer animation
• •It is the recent developments in rendering
complex surfaces like fur and clothingtextures
that have enabled stunningly life-like
animation

11. • 3D Animation
• •All frames must be rendered after modelingis
complete.
• •For pre-recorded presentations, the rendered
frames are transferred to a different format or
medium such as film or digital video.
• •The frames may also be rendered in real time as
they are presented to the end-user audience.

12. • Application of 2D and 3D Animation
• Advertising . Flight simulation . architecture .
forensics . art . medicine . chemistry . military .
education . multimedia . engineering .
Scientific visualization . entertainment .
simulation . film . space exploration .
archaeology . Television . web . Video

13. • Animation Process
• •Pre-production
• •Production
• •Post-production

14. • Traditional Animation Process
• · Script or story development·Storyboard·
Record a soundtrack· Produce a detailed
layout of the action.· Correlatethe layout
with the soundtrack.· create "keyframes” ·
add "in-betweening“

15. • Traditional Animation Process
• · pencil test· Transfer the pencil test frames to
sheets of acetate film, called "cells". · The cells
are then assembled into a sequence and filmed
• http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/03/biogr
aphy-art-babbitt.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animati
on
• http://www.justdisney.com/animation/animation
.html

16. • Computer Animation Process
• * Idea, script, and storyboard* Project
planning* Live action filming*
Modeling*Animating* Creating dynamic or
particle effects* Lighting* Shading and
texturing

17. • Computer Animation Process
• * Setting up a view* Creating a background and
atmosphere
• * Preparing to render* Rendering* Viewing
rendered images* Compositing
• http://www.pixar.com/howwedoit/index.html
http://www.rustboy.com/rustweb.htm
http://www.AnimWatch.com
http://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/JulAug0
5/julaug05_bride.html

18. • Lesson Summary
• •Animation Styles and techniques
• •Traditional vs Computer animation
• •Applications of animation
• •Understanding the animation process

19. • Further Reading
• •Vaughan, T. (2008). Multimedia: Making it Work -Chapter 7 :
Animation
• •Online
• –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation
• –http://media.awn.com/-view animation
• –http://www.animation-central.com/mail.htm-animated gif gallery
• –http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/vote/-links to flashsites
• –http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/page1.htm-learning to write
chinese
• –teachers.oregon.k12.wi.us/ bdn/history.html