Tex Avery

Tex Avery.

Tex Avery was born on February 26th 1908 and died on August 26 1980 aged 72. He was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig, Chilly Willy into the personas for which they were remembered.

Most of the characters Tex Avery made and helped to improve are till around on childrens tv all around the world still today for example:

Bugs Bunny

Daffy Duck

Porky Pig 

Those are only some of the character that are still around today there are many more.

Creation of the looney tunes stars.

Tex Avery, with the assistance of Clampett, Jones and new associate director Frank Tashlin, laid the foundation for a style of animation that dethroned The Walt Disney Studio as the kings of animated short films, and created a legion of cartoon stars whose names still shine around the world today. Tex Avery in particular was deeply involved; a perfectionist. Tex Avery constantly crafted gags for the short, periodically provided voices for them (including his trade mark belly laugh), and held such control over the timing of the shorts that he would add or cut frames out of the final negative if he felt the gag's timing was not quite right.

Daffy Duck 
Porky's duck hunt introduced the character Daffy Duck, who possessed a new form of "lunacy" that had not been seen before in animated cartooon's. Daffy was almost completely out of control. Who frequently bounced around the film frame in double-speed, screaming "Hoo-hoo hop-hoo" in a high pitched, sped-up voice provided by veteran Warners voice artist Mel Blac who, with his cartoon, also took over providing the voice for Porky Pig.

Disney talks about Fantasia and early animation.

Question's and answer's.

1. What does Walt Disney say an animation feature could do after 1938.

That the audience have sustained interest with the animated cartoons.

2. What does he say is the primary purpose of animation?

To have a response and an emotional effect on the audience.

3. What does he say combine to create this effect?

Retain a fragile character in most sketches most were made in pastels and chalk.

4. Explain how they made the film images using paintbrushes. What effects were created.

To create the nut cracker frame he used the dry brush effect to make it look like the frame had a chalk like effect to it and to make it look more realistic.

5. He later says that the drawings and art are only half of a successful animation-what does he say is the other half?

Rotoscope

Rotoscope.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device was eventually replaced by computers.

In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another back ground.

The technique was invented by Max Fleischer, who used it in his series Out of the inkwell starting around 1915, with his brother Dave Fliischer dressed in a clown outfit as the live-film referenced for the       

character Koko the clown. Max patented the method in 1917.

Max Fleischer used rotoscoping in a number of his later cartoons, most notably the Cab Calloway dance routines in three Betty Boop from the early 1930's, and the animation of Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels (1939). The Fleischer's studio's most effective use of rotoscoping was in their series of action-oriented Superman cartoons, in which Superman and the other animated figures displayed very realistic movement.

The art if rotoscoping has been used in various famous films like:

Snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937)

Princess iron fan (1941) which was china's first animated film.

Yellow Submarine (which was the beatles animated film)

The night before christmas

And more resent films:

Wizards (1977)

The lord of the rings (1978)

American pop (1981)

Fire and ice (1983)

Heavy metal (1981)

What have we learnt, charlie brown(1983)

Take on me (1985)

The sun always shines on tv (1985)

Train of thought (1986)

Sita sings the blues (2008)

And many more.

Thaumatrope

Thaumatrope

A Thaumatrope was a popular toy in the victorian times. A disc or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine 

Praxinoscope

Praxinoscope

The Praxinoscope was a animation device, the successor of the Zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Emile Reynaud. Like the Zoetrope it was a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The Praxinoscope improved the Zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the Zoetrope offered.