Character animation is a specialized area of the animation process concerning the animation of one or more characters featured in an animated work. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames It is usually as one aspect of a larger production and often made to complement voice acting. Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and Character animation is artistically unique from other animation in that it involves the creation of apparent thought and emotion in addition to physical action.
Historically, Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) is often considered the very first example of true character animation. Winsor McCay ( September 26 1867 (? – July 26 1934) was an American Cartoonist and Animator. Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 short animated film by Winsor McCay that inspired many generations of animators to bring their cartoons to Otto Messmer imbued his Felix the Cat with an instantly recognizable personality during the 1920s. Otto Messmer ( August 16 1892 - October 28 1983) was an American Animator, best known for his work on the Felix Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent-film era The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada The following decade, Walt Disney made character animation a particular focus of his animation studio, best showcased in productions such as Three Little Pigs, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Dumbo. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Three Little Pigs is a Fairy tale featuring Talking animals Published versions of the story date back to the late 18th century but the story is thought Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the eponymous German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Pinocchio is the second Animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. Dumbo is a 1941 Animated feature Film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. Disney animation artists such as Bill Tytla, Ub Iwerks, Grim Natwick, Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Les Clark, John Sibley, Marc Davis, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hal King, Hamilton Luske, Norm Ferguson, Eric Larson, Johnny Lounsbery, Milt Kahl, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston all became masters of the technique. Vladimir Peter Tytla ( October 25 1904 &ndash December 30 1968) was one of the original Disney Animators and is considered Ub Iwerks, ASC ( Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) ( 24 March 1901 &ndash 7 July 1971) was a two-time Academy Award winning Myron "Grim" Natwick ( August 16 1890 – October 7 1990) was an American Animator and Film director Robert Fred Moore ( September 7, 1911 - November 23, 1952) was an American artist and Character animator for Ward Walrath Kimball ( March 4, 1914 &ndash July 8, 2002) was an Academy Award -winning Animator for the Walt Les Clark ( November 17, 1907 - September 12, 1979) was the first of Disney's Nine Old Men. Marc Fraser Davis ( March 30, 1913 – January 12, 2000) was a prominent artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. Norman Gerard Ferguson (Born October 16 1945 Sydney Nova Scotia) was a center andright wing in the National Hockey League with the Oakland / California Seals This article is about the Disney animator For the American comic book artist see Erik Larsen; for the American author see Erik Larson (author. Milton Erwin Kahl (born March 22, 1909, in San Francisco California, USA; died April 19, 1987, in Mill Valley California Franklin "Frank" Thomas ( September 5, 1912 &ndash September 8, 2004) was an American Animator. Oliver Martin Johnston Jr ( October 31 1912 &ndash April 14 2008) was an American motion picture animator.
Other notable figures in character animation include the Schlesinger/Warner Bros. directors (Tex Avery, Don Bluth, Chuck Jones, Hanna-Barbera. Warner Bros Cartoons Inc was the Animation division of Warner Bros Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery ( February 26, 1908 &ndash August 26, 1980) was an American Donald Virgil Bluth (born September 13, 1937 in El Paso Texas) is an American Animator and independent studio owner Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones ( September 21, 1912 &ndash February 22, 2002) was an American Animator, Bob Clampett, Max Fleischer, Walter Lantz, Frank Tashlin, Robert McKimson, and Friz Freleng), independent animator Richard Williams, John Lasseter at Pixar, and latter-day Disney animators Andreas Deja and Glen Keane. Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett ( May 8 1913 &mdash May 4 1984) was an American Animator, producer Max Fleischer ( July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an important Austrian American pioneer in the development of the Walter Benjamin Lantz ( April 27 1899 &ndash March 22 1994) was an American Cartoonist and Animator, best Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972, also known as Tish Tash or Robert "Bob" McKimson Sr ( October 13, 1910 &mdash September 29, 1977) was an American Animator, Illustrator Isadore "Friz" Freleng ( August 21, 1906  &ndash May 26, 1995) was an Animator, Cartoonist, director Richard Williams (born on March 19, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian Animator, Animation director John Alan Lasseter (born January 12 1957 is an Academy Award -winning American Animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville California. Andreas Deja (born in 1957 in Gdańsk Poland) is a Polish -born German Character animator for The Walt Disney Company. Glen Keane (1954&ndash is an American animator author illustrator and director Character animation is not limited to Hollywood studios, however. Some of the finest examples of character animation can be found in the work of Nick Park of Aardman Animations and Russian independent animator Yuri Norstein. Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park CBE (b 6 December 1958 is a four-time Academy Award -winning English filmmaker of Stop motion Aardman Animations Ltd, also known as Aardman Studios, is an Academy Award -winning British Animation studio based in Bristol, Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn (Ю́рий Бори́сович Норште́йн or Yuri Norstein or Yuri Norshtein (born
Character animation is augmented by special effects animation, which creates 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 Rain is Liquid precipitation. On Earth it is the condensation of atmospheric Water vapor into drops heavy enough to fall often making it to "Snowfall" redirects here For other uses see Snow (disambiguation or Snowfall (disambiguation. Water is a common Chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of Life.