Lecture 5 - Animation

Lecture 5

Animation

"animation is not the art of drawings that move, but the art of movements that are drawn"

"in order to move forward you need to know where you have come from"

Lets begin from the start:

• Animation, is derived from the Latin word 'Animare' which means, to give life to.
• Animation requires an individual to artificially create a series of images that give the illusion that movement has been given to an object or form. 
• This series of images when played back fast enough fools the brain into thinking that movement is taking place.
• This is known as 'persistence of vision!
• Humans have been recording sequential images for over 1000 years, on cave walls, pottery and much more
• slowly the techniques developed into little mechanisms that looped sequences of images
• then as better technology was introduced (and the technology itself sky rocketed) the world of animation changed drastically!
• With the advent of film artists were able to record a series of drawing (frames) to create moving images.

Although animation is my course and i already had various previous presentations and seminars so i am very up to scratch with it. but there were aspects that i did take from it, more so the effect it had on people from the overall animation movement, and how people were fascinated by making their images come to life!