Juan Zaramella

1. Background
Juan Pablo Zaramella is a director and animator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began drawing when he was a child and did his first job as a cartoonist at the age of sixteen. He graduated from Instituto de Arte Cinematografico de Avellaneda as an Animation Director and began directing and animating his own films. He also worked as an illustrator between 1998 and 2005, winning several international awards. All his independent films have been awarded all around the world. His last short film which was Luminaris, has been awarded more than 300 international awards.

2. Video

I found "At the Opera" quite funny and entertaining. It shows multiple characters crying because of the opera singing. At first when you watch it, you wonder why they are crying and you can probably imagine an amazing opera. Some characters cry waterfalls but there's one in particular who appears to be from the upper class, he tears turn into diamonds which is quite funning. At the end there is a plot twist because instead of an opera of people appearing, it shows an opera of onions singing.


3. Example
"LLUMINARIS"

 

Ease In & Out

1. Ease in & Out Principle:
Easing is a way in which an object accelerates or slows down. When you ease in, the motion of the object begins slowly and then gains its speed. When you ease out, the object begins to slow down in motion before stopping. 

2. Video: 

The Five C's of Cinematography

1. Basic Concepts

Camera Angles:
Refers to the angle at which the camera is placed while filming, shows perspective of the audience. A high-angle shot looks down on a subject, while low-angle shot looks up at subject to make the subject appear large. 

Continuity: 
Refers to the consistency through out the whole film. A film must flow naturally for it to make sense to the viewer. Consistency means that clothing, sets or objects stay the same during the scene and that characters maintain consistent personality. 

Cutting: 
Refers to how shots are organized in sequence and it is important to create a series of shots that flow into each other.

Close-Ups: 
Detailed and zoomed shots of a subject, on the screen these subject's details appear larger on the screen. 

Composition: 
Refers to how images in a shot are arranged and organized. This includes how a shot is arranged, the colors, space and balance of lights. 


2. Visual Examples 

Camera Angles

Continuity

 

Cutting


Close-Ups

Composition

 

Principles of Animation

1. Squash and Stretch: 
Is a technique used in animation to characterize an exaggerated animated motion. 

    
2. Timing and Motion:
 Refers on the timing of how the animation plays out and gives meaning to movement.

3. Anticipation: 
 Is the preparation for the action in the animation.

4. Staging:
 Is the presentation of action, personality or mood that is clear.

5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action:
Follow Through is the termination of an action and Overlapping is when you start a second action before the first action is finished.

6. Straight Ahead Action and Pose-to-Pose Action:
Straight ahead action is when an animator works straight ahead from the first drawing in a scene. In Pose-to-Pose Action is when an animator plans his action figuring out what drawings he'll need to animate the scene.

7. Slow In and Out:
The spacing in between frames at maximum positions

8. Arcs:

When all actions follow an arc path. 

9. Exaggeration:
Used in animation for visual effect and makes it look more extreme and surreal.

10. Secondary Action:
An action that results directly from another action. 

11. Appeal:
Giving a character charisma in order to be liked by the audience.

12. Personality: 
Giving particular traits to a character.

 
 

Flipbook.

1. Idea

My inspiration for my flip book was my favourite singer. He was in a band where he was unhappy and he decided to "Take a CHONCE (chance)" and left the band. Then i decided to make a flip book telling the story of how he became happy after losing his band mates.

2. My Flip Book.

3. My Inspiration.
I did not have an inspiration video, the idea just came to me and I decided to create it.

Tim Burton

1. Filmography:

Tim Burton has created many films which are:

2016       Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children      

2016       Alice Through the Looking Glass               

                Monsterpocalypse         

2014       Big Eyes               

2012       Frankenweenie               

2012       Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter          

2012       Dark Shadows  

2010       Waking Sleeping Beauty              

2010       Alice in Wonderland (2010)         

2009       9             

2007       Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street          

2005       Tim Burton's Corpse Bride           

2005       Charlie and the Chocolate Factory           

2004       Big Fish                

2001       Planet of the Apes (2001)            

1999       Sleepy Hollow  

1996       Mars Attacks!   

1995       Batman Forever              

1994       Cabin Boy           

1994       Ed Wood             

2003       Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)     

1992       Batman Returns              

1991       Edward Scissorhands     

1989       Batman (1989)  

1988       Beetlejuice        

2. Favourite Tim Burton Animation: 

My favorite Tim Burton animation has got to be Alice in Wonderland. I have not watched many of his films but this one stands out to me. The way the characters are shown and their appearance is amazing. The characters are very detailed and very interesting to watcch.

3. Style.

The way I see Tim Burton's style is quite dark and a bit odd. A lot of his works resemble a skeleton on a really thin character with hardly any muscle. For example the characters from Nightmare Before Christmas they look very dark and without life.

Early Animations

1. Fantasmagorie:

This animation was created by Emile Cohl in 1908 and it is an example of traditional hand-drawn animation. The animation appears to be drawn on a blackboard but it is drawn on paper, the effect that makes it look like a blackboard is achieved by shooting 700 drawings onto negative film. 

2. Gertie the Dinosaur:

This animation was created in 1914 by cartoonist Winsor McCay. This animation was not the first made but it is the first cartoon made with a character with personality. This animation was the first created using key frame animation.

3. Steamboat Willie:

 Steamboat Willie is an American film that was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1928. This was the first film released with synchrinized sound. This film introduced Mickey Mouse which is the most famous and easily recognized cartoons around the world.

History of Animation

1. History

Animation began thousands of years ago not on paper but on cave paintings. Even in the earliest days we were trying to arouse motion. However, film animation began in the 1900s when J. Steward Blackton formed first stop-frame cartoon in 1906. Since the beginnings, animators have used the best technology for their advantage. As times changes and with improved technolgy animators began to play tricks in our eyes. 

 2D Animation: Is the traditional method of animation that has been used since the late 1800s. It is drawn images followed by another drawn image in a different pose. 

 3D Animation: Is when animated objects appear in 3 dimentional space, they can be moved as if they were real objects.

 Stopmotion: Is a technique of film that shows photographed objects appear to move on their own. 

2. Examples

2D animation
 Title: 2D Traditional Animation 
Year: 2009

3D animation.
Title: CGI 3D Animation showreel HD: Demoreel 2015 by Stephane Mangin
Animator: Stephane Mangin 
Year: 2015

Stopmotion.
Title: Stop motion animation. Magic water.
Year: 2011
Animator: Guldies