JamieLevineUnit10Prep

Optimisation:  Essentially, optimisation means making the product look the best it possibly can. You'll need t consider the purpose of the animation, and how the colour, size, Frame, compression and exported ice fit the purpose.  You should use vector rather than bitmap for this.  Bitmaps - When you zoom in on a faster.bitmap file, the pixels become visible as tiny squares and the overall effect is rather blurred  Vector - Vector graphics store the image information as a series of coordinates (vectors), and when zooming in on the image, it does not blur / pixelate  Exporting the animation  The file format must correlate with the requirements of the brief. As this unit is concerned with producing an animation for online distribution - specifically, a phone app - you need to consider the correct export option.  For this, you will need to compress the file you have created in Final Cut.  .mov...

CStudio Ghibli Fact file: Themes Characters Environments Styles Narratives Themes:- environmentalism friendship love family culture Japanese history war  human emotions Characters:- No face (spirited away) - is a spirit and antagonist in the spirited away franchise. They are a floating spirit with a mask-like face and a black cloak that fades into nothing. He can develop arms and legs and walk and leave footprints. He has an emotionless face with grey and violet highlights. Although there is a mouth on his mask he has revealed a larger mouth underneath. Big Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro) - He is a large character with round features and often is seen wearing a large leaf as a hat. He is a large furry creature with grey fur and beige belly, with pointy ears and long whiskers, along with large paws and claws, resembling an owl. Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service) - he is a 13-year-old black cat who accompanies the protagonist Kiki as she is training to become a full-fledged witch. He also a...

Examples of uses for animation:  Television programmes  Childrens animations  Film, across many different games  Advertisements  Anime and manga  Online and viral  Music video  Augmented reality  Animated Films and TV  Traditional, animated content is associated with younger audiences. Television programmes such as Tom and Jerry and bugs bunny and Disney films from Snow White to frozen, have been largely pitched at children (though as we know from Unit 1, these films also enjoy large audiences formed of older demographics).  Disneyfication  The transformation (as of something real or unsettling) into carefully controlled and safe entertainment or an environment with similar qualities. The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard has called Disneyland the most real place in the US, because its not pretending to be something its not. Its a theme park to put simply. He wrote:  "Disneyland is...

Aim: To research the genres, types and uses of digital animation.  Types of animation: Stop motion animation - Wallace and grommet  Anime - Spirited away Claymation - Wallace and grommet (same as stop motion)  2D Animations - Peppa pig  3D Animations - Marvel films  CGI - Endgame  Line drawing  Cel animation  Hand drawn  Rotoscoping  Live action  Line drawing:  . A hand drawn sketch that moves frame by fame so that the shape evolves and moves.  . It's commonly used in the contemporary advertising.  . Line drawings, today, are generally created using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe flash and Lightbox . Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) are animated by code.  First Cartoon made - (Emile Cohl, 1908) EXAMPLE: Name - Fantasmagorie (EXAMPLE OF A LINE DRAWING)  With line drawings, the more line drawings you have the calmer an image looks, but the less you have means the more nerv...