{"id":311,"date":"2011-03-23T06:20:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=311"},"modified":"2021-09-11T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:27:49","slug":"types-of-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2011\/types-of-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. Time-lapse:<\/strong> Photographing a scene only at selected intervals, creating an illusion of spontaneous change when played back. The earliest form of animation, predating live-action cinema; various playback methods for time-lapse photos were established by the 1830s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Stop-motion:<\/strong> Photographing a single object and moving it while the camera is stopped. Can be done with paper cut-outs, puppets with poseable armatures, or even cooperative human actors (<i>pixilation<\/i>, which with this spelling has nothing to do with computers, meaning &#8220;possession by evil spirits&#8221;). Quickly adopted in the 1900s for visual effects in early silent films.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Replacement:<\/strong> Replacing the object being photographed with a different object while the camera is stopped. <i>Classical animation<\/i> is replacement animation using pencil drawings on paper or ink on plastic cels; this technique dominated animated feature production until the late 1980s. Less common variations use photo collage or sculpture. First came into wide use with &#8220;lightning artist&#8221; vaudeville acts in the 1910s, where audiences would watch an animated film being made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Rotoscoping:<\/strong> Using live action as a frame-by-frame reference for animation. Traditionally done by projecting film footage and tracing it, a common technique by the 1940s. <i>Motion capture<\/i> is a modern variant of rotoscoping, in which the analysis of movement is done with a computer instead of by hand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Analog Computer Graphics:<\/strong> Also known as <i>computer-assisted graphics<\/i>, generating images via commands sent to an external hardware system, such as a motion-control camera or CRT electron beam. Early examples exist from the 1940s; videotape-based systems called <i>video synthesizers<\/i> were in use by the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Digital Computer Graphics:<\/strong> The most common form of animation in use today, generating images within a computer system by manipulating a set of numerical values in memory, instead of through the direct control of hardware. Common digital representations of an image are as a grid of colored dots (<i>pixels<\/i>), a set of spatial coordinates (<i>vertices<\/i>), or a combination of both. The best-documented early examples appear in the 1960s and wide adoption occurs by the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed timeline, see <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/biography-pixel\"><i>A Biography of the Pixel<\/i><\/a> by Alvy Ray Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Time-lapse: Photographing a scene only at selected intervals, creating an illusion of spontaneous change when played back. The earliest form of animation, predating live-action cinema; various playback methods for time-lapse photos were established by the 1830s. 2. Stop-motion: Photographing a single object and moving it while the camera is stopped. Can be done with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}