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Concept Artists

Animation

Wallace and Gromit - Clay Animation

Wallace and Gromit is a very famous TV show which uses clay and stop-motion to create an animation. The characters are modelled and placed in certain poses, then a picture is taken. Then, to simulate movement, the characters or objects and then moved slightly and another photo is taken. This repeats until the character, for example, moves across the screen or finishes the scene.

Team Fortress 2 - 3D animation

This example is from a game called Team Fortress 2. Here, a special program created by its developers is used to take models from the game and create animations for them. Many short films have been produced by the developers and the public as the software is free to download. To animate, the animator would take the model of a human, and then use timelines to create motion. For example, this would mean something like 'for the first second of the clip, the man moves his arm into the air and for the next half a second he creates a fist'. The model is manipulated to form what will happen at the certain points on the timeline.

Ed Edd and Eddy - 2D Computer Graphics Animation

For 2D computer animation, all the graphics are created on a computer on a certain software. To animate these graphics, the animators use frames and each frame is slightly different than the last as the graphic inside is edited. This repeats in such a way to simulate the characters moving to reach a specific goal such as laughing or jumping.

George Metaxas - Stop-motion Paper animation

RETROGRADE from George Metaxas on Vimeo.

This type of animation mainly uses paper to convey a short animated piece. The creator draws and cuts out his characters in different poses or with different eyes and mouths. A scene is then set up with these pieces and the animator will take a photo. He will then replace some of the pieces of paper and take another photo. This process is then repeated until the scene is complete and the set of pictures, when put together and played through, create some form of movement or portray that something is happening.

Robot Chicken - Puppet Animation

Robot Chicken uses stop motion techniques to create movement. In this instance, the Simpsons character models have been created, as well as the town of spring field, from clay. The animators have then used photographs to create frames and each frame has the models doing something slightly different. 

"Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated sketch-comedy television series, created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Rootfor Adult Swim. The writers, especially Green, also provide many of the voices. Senreich, Goldstein, and Root were formerly writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare.^[2] Robot Chicken has won anAnnie Award and three Emmy Awards.^[3][4] Syndicated repeats started airing on TBS on October 20, 2014." 

The independent Spider Man - Brick-film

Brick-film animation is very similar to the previous examples in the sense that is uses stop motion techniques. A lot of Brick-film animations have been made and these usually always revolve around the use of Lego to create the film. These short films have been very successful on Youtube and this prompted   the creation of 'The Lego Movie' which will be the first proper full-length movie created for the Brick-film genre

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John Agnew

http://www.johnnagnew.com/portfolio/index.album/tricolor-heron?i=14

John Agnew was born in Dayton, Ohio. His parents met in art school, so he had an early exposure to the art world. Despite this influence, his early interests lead to dinosaurs and reptiles, and plans to become a zoologist. This course was nurtured by the Dayton Museum of Natural History, where he went through the museum`s nature lore classes and as a high school student landed a job in the museum`s "Junior Curator" program, caring for the live reptile display.

When his artistic talents were discovered, he moved to the museum`s exhibits department where he made models and painted diorama backgrounds. Deciding that exhibits let him enjoy the best of science and art, he realized that museum exhibits would be his career choice. He pursued a degree in Fine Arts while taking as many science electives as he could.