ANIMATION IDEAS

Ray HarryHausen

RAY HARRYHAUSEN

Raymond Frederick was an American visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop motion animation , he was known as the undisputed master of stop motion monsters. Here is a list of his ten finest big screen creations.

• Medusa - Clash Of The Titans          
• Ymir - 20 Million Miles To Earth
• Mighty Joe Young - Mighty Joe Young

Raymond Fredrick was born on June 29th 1920 and died on May 7th 2013 he lived to the age of 92. In these years he made many achievements such as having Wills H O'Brien as his mentor where he achieved one of his most memorable work the animation on Mighty Joe Young. Which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Ray moving to the UK made him dual US-UK citizen and lived in London from 1960 until his death in 2013. This first film that ray had full control over in technical was The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.

Tim Burton Frankenweenie

Contemporary Animators

   TIM BURTON 

Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. Tim Burton is well known for his dark, gothic and bizarre fantasy films such as Edward Scissorhands, beetleJuice , FreankenWeenie and many more. Tim was born on August 25th 1958 in California , he worked as a Disney animator before striking out on his own.

Frankenweenie is a 2012 American 3D stop motion animated fantasy horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. This film is in black and white this is the fourth stop motion film produced by Burton and the first out of the four that is not a musical. After watching an interview of Tim Burton talking about the making of FrankenWeenie he mentions how he wanted his audience to notice that this a stop motion animation and not computer generated. He also spoke about how enjoy making this as it reminded him of when he was in school and the mysterious teachers and students around him. This tells us that some of his ideas on this stop motion animation were influenced from experience. Tim also says that if he was unable to do the movie in black and white he would have not done it as it would not have that rough effect.

Pioneers and Early Inventions

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

Eadweard was an English photographer important for his work in photographic studies of motion, his work was used by both artist and scientist. Eadweard did murder the man who had an affair with his wife however he was not convicted. As his reputation grew in the late 1800s former California Governor Leland Stanford made a bet with Eadweard that speculation had raged for years over whether all four hooves of a running horse left the ground at the same time. Stanford believed they did but the motion was too fast for the human eye to detect. Eadweard Muybridge helped answer this by taking photos of a running horse and creating a stop motion action like the picture above and had proven that they do at times have all four hooves off the ground during their running stride.

ELEPHANT AND CATICORN FIGHT

COLD DAB BY CATICORN

CATICORN AND THE ELEPHANT