Animation involves displaying a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. It can help illustrate concepts and create lasting impressions. There are several types including hand drawn, stop motion, and computer animation using 2D or 3D techniques. Animation has applications in entertainment, medical visualization, scientific visualization, and more. Popular animation software includes Maya, Blender, and Adobe tools, while file formats include GIF, PNG, and SWF.
Animation involves displaying a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. It can help illustrate concepts and create lasting impressions. There are several types including hand drawn, stop motion, and computer animation using 2D or 3D techniques. Animation has applications in entertainment, medical visualization, scientific visualization, and more. Popular animation software includes Maya, Blender, and Adobe tools, while file formats include GIF, PNG, and SWF.
Animation involves displaying a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. It can help illustrate concepts and create lasting impressions. There are several types including hand drawn, stop motion, and computer animation using 2D or 3D techniques. Animation has applications in entertainment, medical visualization, scientific visualization, and more. Popular animation software includes Maya, Blender, and Adobe tools, while file formats include GIF, PNG, and SWF.
Animation involves displaying a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. It can help illustrate concepts and create lasting impressions. There are several types including hand drawn, stop motion, and computer animation using 2D or 3D techniques. Animation has applications in entertainment, medical visualization, scientific visualization, and more. Popular animation software includes Maya, Blender, and Adobe tools, while file formats include GIF, PNG, and SWF.
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UNDERSTANDING
ANIMATION Topic 3(e) What will you learn today? ■ What is animation? ■ Why animation? ■ Types of animation ■ Styles and techniques in animation ■ Application of Animation ■ Software ■ File formats Example
■ Representation of application: Solar system
■ Software: Maya 3D ■ Hardware: PC/ Laptop with graphics card for modeling and rendering What is Animation? ■ Animation is movement of graphics or text in certain sequence. ■ Animation is the production of consecutive images (or text), which, when displayed one after the other. ■ Animation is a powerful tool capable of communicating complex ideas. ■ Adds visual impact to MM project Why animation? Helps to illustrate what you are explaining
Overcomes learning disabilities
Simulating scientific phenomena
Increase of the interest of viewer and create a
lasting impressions
Easier to show somebody how something
works then to try and explain it Types of Animation ■ Hand Drawn Animation: Flip-book animation, cel animation ■ Stop Motion Animation ■ Computer Animation: 2D, 3D, Motion graphics Styles and techniques of animation ■ Traditional animation ■ Stop-motion animation – Character animation – Cutout animation – Limited animation – Claymation – Rotoscoping ("painting on movies" ) – Pixilation – Pinscreen animation ■ Computer animation – Puppetoon – skeletal animation – Per-vertex animation ■ Special effects animation- http ://rcdn-2.fishpond.co.nz/0025/102 – Cel-shaded animation /410/8978487/6.jpeg – Onion skinning – Analog computer animation – Motion capture – Tradigital animation Animation techniques
■ Traditional animation
■ Computer animation Traditional Animation ■ Traditional animation is a very hands-on process. ■ 2D animation is accomplished by hand-drawing hundreds upon thousands of individual frames only to transfer them to clear plastic cels, hand-paint them, and then film them in sequence over a painted background image. ■ It requires a team of artists, cleanup artists, painters, directors, background artists, and film/camera crews, along with the storyboard artists and script writers to work out the original concepts ■ Example of traditional animation: – Cel animation or hand-drawn animation – each frame is drawn by hand. – Stop motion animation – makes static objects appear to move. cel animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVsw0rb5LpM Computer Animation ■ You need is a computer to run the 2D or 3D software application and people capable of using that software. ■ It is much less labor-intensive, and generally much cheaper; there is also a greater margin of error, because your digital files can allow you to undo any mistakes up to a certain number of steps. ■ Computer animation: – Computer-assisted animation – computerized the traditional animation (2D and 2 ½D computer animation). – Computer generated animation – 3D computer graphics. 2D digital animation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdOgW-bB2ZE Types of 2D Animation ■ GIF Animations – Animation on the web – Several bitmapped pictures are linked together and appear animated as they play sequentially. ■ Vector Animation – Refer to animation whose art or motion is controlled by vectors/lines. – Allows cleaner, smoother animation, because images are displayed and/or resized using mathematical values 3D Animation ■ 3D animation is a type of animation created by making and manipulating digital models in a 3D graphics program. Types of 3D Animation
1. Stop-motion Animation 2. Animatronics 3. Performance Animation 4. Character Animation 5. Effects Animation 6. Visual Effects Animation for Live Actor Stop Motion Animation ■ Known as stop-motion photography. ■ Examples: – Traditional : Modeling clay – Modern : Modeling rubber skin with wire armature ■ Can be used to set key poses of 3D computer –animated characters. Stop Motion Animation ■ Forms of stop motion animation: – Clay animation – Clay painting – Cutout animation – Puppet animation – Direct manipulation animation – Object animation – Time lapse animation – Strata-cut animation Animatronics ■ The computer-controlled model that can be animated in real time. ■ Usually, animatronics are placed on the set with live actors. ■ The motions are then programmed with inverse and forward kinematics software. ■ Stored as digital information, can be repeated and refined later. Performance Animation ■ Found in the art of puppetry. ■ Created with puppet in which an actor inside of a suit. ■ The basic idea is that a live actor controls the performance of the animated character. ■ The technique is called Motion capture when applied to 3D computer animation. Effects Animation ■ Animation that is not character-oriented. ■ Usually includes natural phenomena like fire, smoke, wind, dust, water in its many forms (rain, snow, clouds, rivers, waterfalls, ocean) as well as lighting effects (sparks, shadows). Visual Effects Animation for Live Actor ■ Requires a unique approach that is sometimes very different from traditional animation. ■ Animated elements must match with the motions, colours, lighting and perspective of the live sequence. Applications of Animation
Divided into 4 majors area:
i. Display of Information ii. Design iii. Simulation iv. User Interface Display of Information
– reduce training process ■ Robotic simulation ■ TV, Movie, advertising industries – generate photo realistic images ■ Virtual Reality (VR) – reduce risk of training ■ surgery ■ astronaut User Interfaces ■ Window Operating System – Windows 7 – Windows Vista – Mac OS ■ Mobile Apps Animation Application Areas ■ Entertainment: Cinema
Geri’s Game Jurassic Park
Antz A bug’s Life
Animation Application Areas ■ Entertainment: Games
Aki Ross : Final Fantasy
Star Wars Jedi Outcast: Jedi Knight II Quake III
Animation Application Areas
■ Medical Visualization Animation Application Areas
■ Information Visualization Animation Application Areas ■ Scientific Visualization Animation Application Areas
■ Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Animation software ■ Autodesk Maya ■ Blender ■ Adobe Animate ■ After Effects ■ Adobe Character Animator ■ Cartoon Animator 4 ■ Cinema 4D ■ Stop Motion Studio ■ Toon Boom Harmony ■ DigiCel Flipbook ■ Houdini ■ Moho ■ Pencil2D File formats Typical File Short Name Long Name Content Extensions APNG Animated Portable Network Graphics .png Bitmaps/Animation EVA Extended Vector Animation .eva Vector Animation Adobe (Macromedia) Flash FLA Project Animation/Multimedia/ FLA .fla File Format Video FLC FLC .flc Animation FLI FLI .fli Animation GIF Graphics Interchange Format .gif Bitmaps/Animation MNG Multi-image Network Graphics .mng Bitmaps/Animation Small Web Format (Flash) - originally Animation/Multimedia/ SWF .swf "ShockWave Flash" Video Animation/Multimedia/ SWI SWiSH Project File .swi Video WebP WebP .webp Bitmap/Animation GUIDELINES ■ Animations should impact not detract. ■ Animate what we want users to notice. ■ Animation should be appropriate to the mood and content of the application. ■ Do not use too many animated objects per page. ■ Animation that does the same thing over and over is annoying. ■ Use transitions and special effects that help communicate message. ■ Make sure animation loads quickly. ■ Use animation where taking video shots may be unpractical or impossible but where depicting motion is necessary. ■ Use animation where minute details are to be depicted. – Video often has a lower resolution than animation 38 Wrap-Up ■ What is animation? ■ Why animation? ■ Types of animation ■ Styles and techniques in animation ■ Application of Animation ■ Software ■ File formats
