Experimental animator Norman McLaren drawing directly on film in 1944. Norman McLaren, C C, C Q (b April 11 1914 - d January 27 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian Animator Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

An animator is an artist who creates multiple images called Key frames that form an illusion of movement called animation when rapidly displayed. The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating A key frame in Animation and Filmmaking is a drawing which defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Usually, an animation piece requires the collaboration of several animators. The methods of creating the images or frames for an animation piece depends on the animators' artistic styles and their field.

Other artists who contribute to animated cartoons, but who are not animators, include layout artists (who design the backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles), storyboard artists (who draw panels of the action from the script), and background artists (who paint the "scenery"). An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer See also Pre-production Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of Illustrations or Images displayed in sequence for the purpose of Moreover, voice actors, musicians and other talent may be added as necessary to give the animation additional depth. Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a

Specialized fields

Among the specialized categorizations of animators are character animators (artists who specialize in character movement, dialogue, acting, etc. Character animation is a specialized area of the Animation process concerning the animation of one or more characters featured in an animated work A dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog) is a reciprocal Conversation between two or more entities. Acting is the work of an Actor or Actress, which is a person in Theatre, Television, Film, or any other Storytelling ) and special effects animators (who animate anything that is not a character; most commonly vehicles, machinery, and natural phenomena such as rain, snow, and water). The illusions used in the Film, Television, Theater, or Entertainment industries to simulate the imagined events in a story are traditionally called Vehicles, derived from the Latin word vehiculum, are non-living Means of transport. A machine is any device that uses Energy to perform some activity

Inbetweener and Cleanup artists

In large-scale productions by major studios, each animator usually has one or more assistants, "inbetweeners" and "cleanup artists", who make drawings between the "key poses" drawn by the animator, and also re-draw any sketches that are too roughly made to be used as such. Tweening, short for in-betweening is the process of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that Usually, an artist is hired for the first time in one of these categories, and can later advance to full animator status.

Methods

In the past, animating was a long and arduous process; each frame of a given scene was hand-drawn, then transposed onto sheets of celluloid, where they would be traced and painted. A cel, short for Celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional hand-drawn animation. These finished "cels" were then placed together and filmed, one frame at a time. ^[1]

Animation methods have become far more varied in recent years - today's cartoons could be created using any number of interesting methods, mostly using computers to make the animation process cheaper and faster. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames These more efficient animation procedures have made the animator's job less tedious and more creative.

References

1. ^ "How A Cartoon is Made" http://www.sci.fi/~animato/cartoon/cartoon.html

See also

• Animation
• Computer animation
• Computer graphics
• Key frame

External links

• Animation Toolworks Glossary: Who Does What In Animation
• How An Animated Cartoon Is Made