{"id":168,"date":"2016-10-05T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/labor-intensive-animation-is-still-best-by-clayton-pickard-kids-first-film-critic-age-16\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:38:03","slug":"labor-intensive-animation-is-still-best-by-clayton-pickard-kids-first-film-critic-age-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2016\/labor-intensive-animation-is-still-best-by-clayton-pickard-kids-first-film-critic-age-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Intensive Animation Is Still Best! By Clayton Pickard, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic, age 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hayao_mizayaki_movies.jpg\"<\/a>Animation is an amazing art form.\u00a0 Especially, the labor intensive forms, such as hand-drawn, traditional animation, stop-motion animation and claymation. All my favorite animated films use these types of animation.\u00a0 Computer generated animation (CGI) just doesn\u2019t do it for me, especially in a feature film.<\/p>\n

Traditional animation is known to be the oldest form of animation.\u00a0 The artist has to draw every frame to fashion the animation sequence.\u00a0 Numerous drawings are created and filmed to create motion.\u00a0 In traditional animation, timing is very important, since each frame has to blend into the soundtrack exactly.\u00a0 Some films that use \"classic_animated_disney_movies.jpg\"<\/a>traditional animation, also called ink and paint, include the classic Disney features Snow White, Aladdin, Peter Pan <\/em>and Sleeping Beauty<\/em>. Walt Disney Feature Animation was the first studio to switch from hand-drawn to digital ink and paint, starting in the late 80s with The Rescuers Down Under<\/em>.\u00a0 Studio Ghibli\u2019s Princess Mononoke <\/em>was the last feature film to exclusively employ traditional ink and paint.<\/p>\n

In stop-motion animation, physical objects are moved around and filmed, frame by frame, but through the magic of cinema it appears as fluid movement. Stop-motion animation has been around since the invention of film when Albert Smith and Stuart Blackton made The Humpty Dumpty Circus<\/em> in 1898.\u00a0 Some films which use stop-motion animation are early South Park episodes, Coraline, James and the Giant Peach,<\/em> Nick Park\u2019s Wallace and Gromit <\/em>series and his wonderful, Chicken Run.<\/em>\u00a0 This year\u2019s Kubo and the Two Strings <\/em>took stop-motion animation to a whole new level. The origami characters that Kubo creates are mind-blowing in their grace and detail.\u00a0 My favorite stop-motion animation film is Wes Anderson\u2019s Fantastic Mr. Fox.<\/em>\u00a0 That film not only has great visuals, but an incomparable screenplay as well.<\/p>\n

In claymation, balls of clay are molded together to create characters.\u00a0 Oil or water based clay is used to accomplish this.\"wallace_and_gromit.jpg\"<\/a>\u00a0 The characters are then filmed in short burst of movement to create a scene.\u00a0 Most of the films that use this technique are also stop-motion animation.\u00a0 Some of the best include the original Gumby <\/em>series, the Wallace and Gromit <\/em>shorts, Shaun the Sheep <\/em>and Paranormal.<\/em>\u00a0 I will never forget the chase scene on the train set in Wallace and Gromit\u2019s The Wrong Trousers.<\/em>\u00a0 That scene is the epitome of stop-motion animation!<\/p>\n

Throughout the years, new modern forms of animation have been created that resemble these older styles, but take less time to make and cost considerably less.\u00a0 These newer techniques are usually used in conjunction with the more traditional forms to create a hybrid animation if you will.\u00a0 The newer Studio Ghibli films employ this approach, a mix of computer animation and hand-drawn cels.\u00a0 This is what still gives those films such a wonderful, painterly look.<\/p>\n

What do you think? What are your favorite animated films and what format are they created in? Let us know. We love to hear from our readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Animation is an amazing art form.\u00a0 Especially, the labor intensive forms, such as hand-drawn, traditional animation, stop-motion animation and claymation. All my favorite animated films use these types of animation.\u00a0 Computer generated animation (CGI) just doesn\u2019t do it for me, especially in a feature film. Traditional animation is known to be the oldest form of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-critics-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}