Thursday 17 October 2013

1950's -1970's Animation

Scooby Doo
Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday morning cartoon series featured four teenagers Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and their talking brown Great Dane dog named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.

Top Cat
Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from November 26, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Reruns are played on Cartoon Network's classic animation network Boomerang.





Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is a family cartoon character, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, who has appeared in numerous comic books, animated television shows and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. Yogi Bear was the first breakout character created by Hanna-Barbera and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound. In January 1961, he was given his own show, The Yogi Bear Show, sponsored by Kellogg's, which included the segments Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle.

Thursday 10 October 2013

Animation from the 1930's - 1950's

Disney- Snow white and the seven dwarves
This is an animation by Disney using Cell base animation and with the audio.

Snow white and the seven dwarves was an american feature film from Walt Disney and an adaptation of a story by The Brothers Grimm, it was released by the RKO Radio Pictures company and also the first and earliest full length feature film from  Disney and his first animated film to be in the Disney classic series. 
The origional story was adapted by story board artists: Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Marrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Searsand Webb Smith. David Hand was the Supervising Director, While William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce and Ben Sharpsteen directed the individual sequences of the film.

Upon Initial release the feature film brought in $8million and briefly assumed the tittle of the highest grossing Sound film at the time.


Fleischer- Betty Boop Dope Head Blues
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. Despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more demure, she became one of the best-known and popular cartoon characters in the world.


Tom And Jerry
Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases include slapstick comedy.


Art Clokey
was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up with the clay character Gumby. Gumby and his horse Pokey became a familiar presence on American television; they had their start in the Howdy Doody Show, and later got their own series The Adventures of Gumby.


Looney Toons
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. series of animated short films. It was produced from 1930 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series, Merrie Melodies.ooney Tunes originally showcased Warner-owned musical compositions through the adventures of cartoon characters such as Bosko and Buddy. Later Looney Tunes films featured such popular characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, Tweety, Taz, Marvin the Martian, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner.


Thursday 3 October 2013

Animators From History

Georges Melies
Georges Melies was a French illusionist and Film maker, Famous for creating many Technical and Narative Innovations in the earliest days of cinema, creating and incorporating the use many special effects to his films, He accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work.













Winsor Mccay


Winsor Mccay was an american cartoonist and animator , Best known for The commic strip Little Nemo and animating the film Gertie the dinosaur, He also roduced Dream of the Rarebit Friend under the pen name silas due to conrtactual reasons.


Lotte Reiniger

She animated wooden rats and created the animated intertitles for Wegener's The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The success of this work got her admitted into the Institute for Cultural Research, an experimental animation and shortfilm, The first film Reiniger directed was The Ornament of the Enamoured.







Walt Disney
Walt Disney is a major figure within the American animation industry and throughout the world, he is regarded as an international icon, well known for his influence and contributions to the field of entertainment during the 20th century. He produced the first audio in animation in steamboat willie.