Cel Animation also known as tradition animation is done by drawing each individual frame by hand, this technique was the dominant form of animation for cinema until the advent of computer animation.
Creating a Cel Animation was a long process, that involved a lot of pre-production work also, story boards were made before the creation of the soundtrack, after this they would create was was called an animatic, where they would place slides from the story board in sync with the soundtrack to help create a general idea of how the animation needed to go, before animation began though they needed to go through character design and layouts, this would be where the background artists would draw in the background, choosing the camera angle and etc, finally the animation is created.
Cel animation works by taking individual frames and playing them back really quickly, this creates the illusion of movement to the audience.
Oliver Postgate was a writer for some of Britain's most popular children's most popular television programes, including Pingwings, Pogles' wood, Noggin the Nog, Clangers and Bagpus.
They were all made by a company called Smallfilms and were shown on the BBC.
Smallfilms was a company set up between 1959 and the 1980s and was a partnership between Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. Bagpus was the show that was made during the 70s, and it has been voted the favourite children's show of all time by a BBC poll.
Here is a clip from Bagpus from my favourite episode as a child:
Hanna Barbara
Hanna Barbara Productions Inc was an American Animation studio that dominated American television animation for nearly three decades in the mid to late 20th century.
The company was formed in 1957 by directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera the creators of Tom and Jerry and live action director George Sydney in partnership with Columbia Pictures.
Some of their productions include
Inch High, Private Eye (1973)
Hong Kong Phooey (1974)
Amigo and Friends (1981)
The Smurfs (1981)
Snorks (1984)
Dexters Laboratory (1996)
Cow and Chicken (1997)
Jonny Bravo (1997)
The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
Here is the intro theme from one of their shows Jonny Bravo:
Disney
Through the 1970s Disney was still creating family friendly films such as Escape to Which Mountain and Freaky Friday, those these films were not doing as good at the Box Office as previous, however the animation studio was making success with films such as Robin Hood (1973), The Rescuers (1977) and The Fox and the Hound (1981).
In the 1980s Disney produced films such as Who Framed Rodger Rabbit (1988) and later on made The Little Mermaid (1989). Disney also entered the field of television with shows such as The Adventures of the gummi bears, Duck tales are Gargoyles.
Here is a bit from Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, which is one of my favourite films of all time:
Time lapse is a type of animation were a camera is usually set to take pictures at a lowered interval to create a lapse effect, it is also usually done over long periods of time to create the best effect.
I will show you examples of time lapse animation and talk about them a little, one famouse example of time lapse animation is when a person takes a picture of them selves every day for a prolonged period of time, usually spanning several years.
This one is a a man called Noah, who takes a picture of his face every day for 6 years.
Another example is of a film called Koyaanisquatsi which consists mainly of time lapse shots and slow motion video, of people in a city set to a track of music.
