T3 Report Choice of possible formats and Research:

Appropriateness for chosen style:

For this Unit the 2D animation that I will be producing for awareness of healthy eating for
children aged 5-11 and animation software I have been advised to use for the production of
this animation is a Stop-motion style animation in Adobe Flash.
Adobe Flash is an animation production software owned by Adobe where you can produce
many different types of animations with many different specifics; in this Unit, we will be
creating a stop-motion style animation which will run at 24 Frame Per Second (FPS) in the
Adobe Flash software.
Stop motion is a very popular animation technique where you physically manipulate the
objects, which you want, featured in your film. The object is moved very slightly between
photos of the scene and at 24 photos a second when you put them all in a sequence; it
creates the illusion of movement.
Not all stop motion animation just use it to move characters in a scene of the film, many
stop motion films involve human actor and slightly moving from different position between
each photo.
The term Stop Motion is related to the animation technique and is often spelled with a
hyphen Stop-Motion. Stop motion has more than one meaning, the second meaning of
Stop Motion is not related to animation at all! Stop Motion A device for automatically
stopping a machine or engine when something has gone wrong.

Alternate available chosen styles:

Flip book:
A Flipbook, also known as a Flick book is a book which on eat page has a drawing or
printed image which slightly changes / moves on each page. Once all the drawings /
images are placed in the book, you are now ready to see the effect of the Flipbook. For
the Flipbook to work you, need to turn / Flick the pages are a rapid speed so the all
pictures together form an animation of some sort.
The reason a Flip Book would not be suitable for this Unit is that you would need
hundreds and hundreds of pictures for this to have a duration of 30 seconds; it really is
not suitable for this kind of animation needed.
A Flip Book is a book with a series of very similar pictures that vary from each page to the
next so when the pages a turned fast the pictures appear to create an animation. You
mainly see Flip Book created for children and cartoon like flip books for kids.
The first Flip Book became known about in September 1868 when someone named John
Barnes Linnet created it, he called his first Flip Book Kineograph that translates to Moving
picture.
Flip Books are now just largely advertised and considered a toy or a novelty now, like the
type of toy you would get in a kids cereal box or something you would find in a McDonalds
happy meal.

Animatic:
Animatics are animated storyboards, which are then brought into an editing studio to then
be turned in to a computer animation. This form of animation is used for the extremely
popular TV cartoon, The Simpsons. Designers sketch each scene onto storyboards / dope
sheets and will have a brief description and notes for the computer animators to take in
mind when going into the production stage.
The reason in which I dont think this would work well is because it is me creating the
storyboard / dope sheets and me who is creating the actual animation digitally on the
computer whereas this technique is usually used between 2 departments.

Filmstrip:
The Filmstrip was a common form of still image instructional multimedia, once commonly
used by educators in primary and secondary schools (K-12), overtaken at the end of the
eighties by newer and increasingly lower-cost full-motion videocassettes and later on
by DVDs from the 1940s to 1980s. The reasoning which a Filmstrip would not be viable for
this animation in which our aim animation goal because we are digitally creating this
animation in a computer on the Adobe Flash to then be publish in a video format, MP4 for
example.
 Time-lapse photography:
Time-lapse photography is when you set a camera up in a certain location, people often use
this technique when filming urban areas with the all the traffic / clouds going by and watch
the sun moves across the sky etc. Time-lapse photography is often used in TV programs and
documentaries of the place, which that particular program is set.
Time-lapse Photography is not a good type of animation to use because the animation we
are creating will have different scenes, which cannot be done because a Time-lapse is a
single shot recorded for a long time and then rapidly sped up.

Sequential photographs:
Sequential photographs are photographs that are taken at the exact same point. For
example if someone is jumping over something on a skateboard the camera is set up on the
exact same point and once you take the picture many picture will be taken rapidly, around 5
a second and when you layer the photo on top of one another, the only different between
them is the person on the skateboard so the background will stay the same and the
different positions of the skateboarder will show.
This would not be a good idea for our animation since it is a video, not an image.
 Collage:

Index cards:
Cut-out animation:
Cell animation:
Traditional animation or Hand-drawn / Cell animation is a type of animation
production where each frame of the animation is drawn by hand, this was one of the
main sources of creating animations until the complete introduction of computer
animation.
Examples of hand drawn animation have been around for thousands of years even
back in ancient Egyptian 4000-5000 years ago there is traces of animation drawing!
The first film recorded on standard picture films that included hand drawn animation
was in 1900, in Europe the first hand drawn animation was by a French artist named
emil cohl in 1908. The more detailed hand-drawn animation films required a whole
team of artists and animators to draw each frame manually with detailed
backgrounds, character and made sure they were the same and each frame
transitioned to the next appropriately.

Mark making on film: