Published between 1982 and 1995
A lot of preparation has to be done before they start to shoot animation over live-action. First of all the live action company shoot the background. This is then edited and Camera Effects are supplied with the negative. From that negative, an interpositive colour fine grain is made with negative perforations, so there are no … Read more
Each frame costs a minimum of £25 to produce the artwork, mainly because of the time involved and the artist’s experience. Even so, it would be much more expensive to re-shoot the live action when you consider the cost of the actor and crew. This is something they could not do on video with Paint … Read more
The Adventures of Andre and WaIIy B. recieved a Special Award from the 1985 Canadian International Animation Festival in Toronto. The whole film was generated by computer. David Jefferson reports on a talk given by two of the film’s makers at the Annecy Festival. Picture, if you can, a wide angle shot of a wooded … Read more
Using this method the computer only animates the background. All the characters are done by conventional animation. There for there is no time saving involved. The chances of wanting to do a whole story film by this method seem remote but it could be used for selected scenes in the same way that the multiplane … Read more
The general principles of inbetweening are given in a programme that can be adapted for most home micro computers. David Jefferson explains how it works. This programme will make inbetween drawings for two given drawings. It will do as many inbetween steps as you ask it. The way it works is to look at both … Read more
In spite of the incredible range of animation effects that can be produced by ANTICS it is described as a Stone Age Machine by it’s inventor Alan Kitching. Ken Clark talks to the man behind the machine and finds out why. When I first met Alan Kitching, I have to admit, I was taken aback. … Read more
K.C.: So speaks the man who scratched designs on black 16mm film at the tender age of twelve. A.K.: Ah! Yes – but I spent a year in a professional animation studio run by Trevor Bond before going to university. That is how Trevor started. We had one desk and one rostrum camera. He sat … Read more
K.C.: To be fair, British animation has always attempted to find its own style. Very little of the earlier surviving material exhibit signs of Disney’s influence. A.K.: Yes, that’s true. But I mentioned the United Nations just now – we made a slick promotional short for the U.N. University. Yes! – the U.N. actually has … Read more
A comment by Ken Clark Computer games are limited in their ability to produce a graphic display by the K-factor. 16K cannot be expected to generate complicated pictures in full colour. Yet, the public is being coaxed into buying and using home computers by means of a plethora of games. While this is an excellent … Read more
Animation enters the gaming arena
Animation history is about to have another “first.” The videogame phenomenon, which recently invaded the animation world via Saturday morning and computer animation graphics, is about to feel the wrath of the animated drawing, itself, as DRAGON’S LAIR premieres this summer (Refers to 1983 in USA).