Artists and Animation study

Animators  

Wallace and Gromit - 'The Wrong Trousers'

The creator's of 'Wallace and Gromit'; Nick park and Peter Salli's produced a film animation that was primarily created by moulding Plasticine bodies into movement. Wallace and his dog Gromit are one of the most popular comedy animations still to this day, in the specific animation 'The wrong trousers' Wallace and gromit try their best to tackle their sociopath penguin room mate with a pair of robotic trousers. 'The wrong trousers' had around 25 to 30 animators and would be shot while the next set was being set up, 'The Wrong Trousers was one of their biggest feature films and was produced over an 18 month period with around 300 crew members shooting 25 different sets at one time. As a director Nick Park liked to act each scene through first so that the other animators and crew could follow, Nick would over see the look, speed and impact after of each shot afterwards. Several different versions of the same characters were created so that different shots could be taken at one time along with the different positions of the characters, this took many hours and the film creation was a long process.

Walt Disney's 'Tangled' 

The movie animation 'Tangled ' was created in 2010 as an American 3D computer animation film. Produced in Walk Disney animation studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures , Tangled was a spin off film based on the German fairytale 'Repunzel'. Tangled was also Disney's 50th animated feature film and featured the voices of Donna Murphy and Mandy Moore. Before its release the animation was in process for around 6 years before hitting your local cinema. The cost of the production for this type of computerised animation was estimated at around $260,000,000; this would make the film one of Disney's biggest investments and most expensive animation to date. Within the animation we saw a series of techniques from CGI, traditional animation and non- photo realistic rendering, this is so that you can create the impression of painting. The overall appearance of the film was taken from inspiration of traditional looking oil paintings on canvas; the Rococo paintings of a French artist Jean-Honore Frangonard in particular 'The Swing' was used as a reference for the films artistic style.  This is where the non-photo realistic rendering came into great use.  
Originally the Movie was to be animated using the 2D animation process; But David Stainton and Dick cook decided that in order to improve the films production that they should use computer graphics and make the film in 3D as this would be in popular demand. The film was produced in 3D due to the conclusion of Glen Keane and 50 of Disney's CGI artists agreed that this would be more aesthetically pleasing for the audience.                                    

Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' 

The Nightmare before Christmas was originally created from the poem also produced by Tim Burton, At the beginning Burton wanted to create a stop- motion animation movie himself however at the time of shooting , he was already occupied by another film that he was directing (Batman Returns).  Therefore this stop motion animation was to be produced by an animation team. Tim wrote the poem 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' back in the 1980's when he was still working as an animator for Walt Disney, in the 90's Burton had a contract with Walt Disney pictures to bring the poem to life in the form of a full-length film. The animation was created in 1993 as an animated, musical, dark fantasy film which was directed by Henry Selick and produced by Tim Burton himself. The film was voted an academy award for the best visual effects and was the first stop motion animated feature to be entirely converted into 3D. In order to bring the poem to life, the production crew employed over 120 workers to get the right voice overs and sound effects. At peak times of the production of 'the nightmare before Christmas' around 20 individual stages were used for filming and overall there were 109,440 frames taken for the film. The film creators constructed 227 puppets to be used to represent the characters within the film, the main character- Jack Skeleton had around 400 different heads with many expressions this was so the film looked more streamline and real.

The Simpson's

The Simpson's is a television series that to this date is still being broad casted on TV. The Simpson's is an American animated sitcom that was produced by the Fox broadcasting company and created by Matt Groening. The show is set in a fictional town called 'Springfield' who's main characters are the 'Simpson' family. The sitcom portrays many of society's issues, culture and family experiences that can be relatable for the audience. The Simpson's target audience is aimed at all ages for children from the age of 10+ to adults. Before the show became a series the Simpson's used to be a small sketch and animated short. The first series was aired in 1989; The Simpson's now in current day are on their 29th series. Its now the longest running animation series in America and the UK. The show was developed first from small sketches before and after advertisements on TV before the idea was pitched to created a movie and television series on the animation. The characters of the Simpson's started as basic sketches to which the creator thought that they would be edited however the characters were merely re-traced , which lead to the appearance of the characters looking crude.