BEST FILM SCHOOLS List of Ten Great Film Schools in the U.S. College/University Name | Distinction | Location | American Film Institute Conservatory | The American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women program | Los Angeles‚ CA | California Institute of the Arts | The Community Arts Partnership program | Valencia‚ CA | Columbia University | The multidisciplinary Arts Collaboration Lab summer program | New York‚ NY | Florida State University | The Torchlight Program for film
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(still picture of the movie clip) every 1/24th of a second and the same frame is shown three times during this time period (Persistence‚ 2001). The eye retains the image of each frame long enough‚ giving an illusion of smooth‚ continuous motion. Animation uses exactly the same principle to render the idea of motion. This led to such devices as the zoetrope‚ or "wheel of life." The zoetrope has a short‚ fat cylinder‚ which rotated on its axis of symmetry. Around the inside of the cylinder was a sequence
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History of Animation History of Animation Zoetrope (180 AD) The zoetrope is a device which creates the image of a moving picture. The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the prolific inventor Ting Huan Made from translucent paper or mica panels‚ Huan hung the device over a lamp. The rising air turned vanes at the top from which hung the pictures painted on the panels would appear to move if the device is spun at the right speed. Magic Lantern (1600) The magic
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Surreal Animation Mike Moore Introduction In 1908 movie audiences were given the first glimpse of one of film’s most durable and expressionistic genres: Animation. The first true animation‚ lasting slightly longer than one minute‚ and consisting of over 700 still images‚ was created entirely by the hand of Emile Cohl. Cohl‚ a former comic strip writer‚ spent months tracing and retracing each individual frame of his film‚ each image only slightly different from the next‚ until the whole portfolio
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Who is the father of animation ? People might say Walt Disney‚ but there were animated movie cartoons‚ based on comic strips for the most part‚ pre-Disney. It is believed that Felix the Cat-in black and white‚ was the earliest Movie animated cartoon by the King Features Syndicate and by accident of history- a soaky-head puppet used as a test subject on a turntable in l947- the first Television cartoon- regular movie-based Felix shorts were also probably the first regularly televised. Chronology
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English word "animation"‚ in the western world most popularly refers to the medium of animation originating in Japan‚ with distinctive character and background aesthetics that visually set it apart from other forms of animation (e.g. Walt Disney films‚ Warner Bros. short cartoons). (Baricordi‚ Andrea; Pelletier‚ Claude (2000). Anime: A Guide to Japanese Animation (1958-1988). Montreal‚ Canada: Protoculture). In Japan‚ the word anime is used to refer to all forms of animated film from around the
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Alexander Lee GD 150 9/2/2010 History of Animation Animation began to develop in 1824 when a British physician‚ named Peter Mark Roget‚ described the concept of “persistence of vision‚” which means that the pictures appear to create the illusion of motion as we quickly look and retain them one by one.1 In the 1870s‚ Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic gathering of animals and humans in motion.2 While he was in the West Coast‚ he experimented and recorded the movements of a galloping
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DreamWorks Animation is an innovative creator of blockbuster animated films. The animation studios develop and produce high-quality animated films using state of the art technology. DreamWorks Animation established itself in the entertainment industry and helped popularize computer-generated animation. In 1994‚ Steven Spielberg‚ Jeffrey Katzenberg‚ and David Geffen founded DreamWorks SKG in Glendale‚ California. DreamWorks Animation is a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG entertainment production. Today
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Computer Animation Computer animators work to bring objects to life through the use of computer graphics. Like traditional animators‚ computer animators manipulate graphics and images to simulate movement. However‚ unlike traditional animators‚ computer animators use digital technology to create new visual effects and motions that help avoid the monotonous‚ frame-by-frame drawing required for each picture. Computer animation is a very lucrative business and shows no sign of slowing down in the future
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Animation Animation is a visual technique that creates the illusion of motion‚ rather than recording motion through live action. The technique is used mainly for motion pictures. Animation can be created by illustrators‚ filmmakers‚ video makers‚ and computer specialists. Animation is most popular in creating cartoon movies. Advertisers also employ animation to develop commercials for television. In addition‚ producers of instructional films may use animation to help explain a difficult idea
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