In my report I am going to be writing about three different animators such as Walt Disney, Hanna Barbera and Norman McLaren. I will be discussing the importance about each one of these different influential animators.
Walt Disney was an animator, cartoonist, producer, director, screenwriter, pioneer, voice actor and much more. Walt Disney first started creating animations since the 1920's as earlier in his life he was making animated advertisements for other companies. The first character that Walt Disney had put down on paper was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit working beside Ub Iwerks in developing funny animal films that were assigned by Universal Pictures. In the 1930's Walt Disney was then removed from the Oswald Rabbit productions and moved onto developing Mickey Mouse which had lead him to creating one of his most famous pieces of working Steamboat Willie, this was produced on black and which paper. In 1933 Walt Disney had developed the Multiplane Camera. The Multiplane Camera is a special motion picture camera that creates a three dimensional effect, this is done by using a tradition animation process by moving different sections of artwork in front of the camera at different speeds and distances. Many of the different layers are transparent so that the other layers which are placed behind are able to be seen by the naked eye, this is done frame by frame with leaving an illusion. Walt Disney had used this invention for many of his animations, for example the first time that he had used the Multiplane Camera was when creating The Old Mill, one this became a success in his films he then went on using the same invention with Snow White and Bambi. Walt Disney then went on making an on going series called Silly Symphonies within this he had created a short called Flowers and Trees which started off in 1932 being the first full colour cartoon using the Three Strip Technicolor Processes which had lead Walt Disney winning the first Academy Award with inspiring other animators such as Max Fleischer and Ub Iwerks using the same invention instead of the Two Colour Process (The Cinecolor). In 1937 Walt Disney then moved onto making the first Full length coloured film, Snow White which was based on a German fairy tale. Snow White was developed by using the Multiplane Camera and had also been created by using the technique Rotoscope which is done by tracing real life features.
Walt Disney was an animator, cartoonist, producer, director, screenwriter, pioneer, voice actor and much more. Walt Disney first started creating animations since the 1920's as earlier in his life he was making animated advertisements for other companies. The first character that Walt Disney had put down on paper was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit working beside Ub Iwerks in developing funny animal films that were assigned by Universal Pictures. In the 1930's Walt Disney was then removed from the Oswald Rabbit productions and moved onto developing Mickey Mouse which had lead him to creating one of his most famous pieces of working Steamboat Willie, this was produced on black and which paper. In 1933 Walt Disney had developed the Multiplane Camera. The Multiplane Camera is a special motion picture camera that creates a three dimensional effect, this is done by using a tradition animation process by moving different sections of artwork in front of the camera at different speeds and distances. Many of the different layers are transparent so that the other layers which are placed behind are able to be seen by the naked eye, this is done frame by frame with leaving an illusion. Walt Disney had used this invention for many of his animations, for example the first time that he had used the Multiplane Camera was when creating The Old Mill, one this became a success in his films he then went on using the same invention with Snow White and Bambi. Walt Disney then went on making an on going series called Silly Symphonies within this he had created a short called Flowers and Trees which started off in 1932 being the first full colour cartoon using the Three Strip Technicolor Processes which had lead Walt Disney winning the first Academy Award with inspiring other animators such as Max Fleischer and Ub Iwerks using the same invention instead of the Two Colour Process (The Cinecolor). In 1937 Walt Disney then moved onto making the first Full length coloured film, Snow White which was based on a German fairy tale. Snow White was developed by using the Multiplane Camera and had also been created by using the technique Rotoscope which is done by tracing real life features.
Hanna Barbera was an American animation studio that dominated animation television for nearly four decades. Hanna Barbera was founded by two men Called William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in the mid 20th century. Hanna Barbera in their earlier years were MGM animators and creators for Tom and Jerry and had won seven Oscars within 1943- 1953. When the company MGM had closed down Hanna Barbera for the first time had created a name for themselves in 1997, they had become one of the most famous animating studios within television as they started to produce prime-time weekday and had their Saturday morning cartoons for the three biggest television networks syndications in the USA. Between 1957 and 1995, Hanna Barbera had created many successful television shows that are still being watched today which are The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, Scooby Doo and the Smurfs with many more following. With these many successful programmes this lead Hanna Barbera winning eight Emmy's, one Golden Globe Award and a star that you can find on the Hollywood walk of Fame.As Hanna Barbera had a small television budget, this was shown in the quality of their animations as Hanna Barbera had to create their animations with using simplified backgrounds so that it was much easier to re use the background to create a longer sequence throughout the episodes as they were only being paid $3,000 for five minutes. When creating their animations they had often cut the pieces into many levels which were divided into mouth, arms, legs and head. This was so that only the parts that needed to be moved was shown and animated to create movement so that they were able to do a ten minute short with 1,200 drawings without having to do the standard short of 26,000 drawings.
Norman McLaren was a Canadian animator and a film director. Norman McLaren created many films for the Nation Film Board for Canada also known as NFB. He was a pioneer in many parts of animation and in the film making industry which includes drawn on film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixelation and graphical sound. In 1936 started to work for GPO until 1939, within his career at GPO Norman McLaren created four animations Book Bargain which he had developed in 1937 at the beginning of his professional career. He then moved onto making Mony a Pickle and Love on the Wings in 1938, then ending his film making career at GPO with the film New for the navy which was released in 1938. In 1939 Norman McLaren had moved to New York to work for Solomon Guggenheim Foundation his career path moved onto creating four drawn animated films called Boogie Doodle, this kind of work that he drawn out consisted with dots, loops, starts and stripes. Norman Mclaren in the 1940's moved to Canada to train other animators at his own animating studio for the National Film Board. Norman McLaren is known for his peculiar experiments with imagery and sound as he was able to develop many techniques for combining and synchronising animation with music.
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