2D Animation presentation

In the first the first lecture we were split up into groups of around five to discuss and prepaire a presentation on a theme. My groups was 2D animation, we desided to do the history of 2D anmation in a matter of minutes because we felt it had alot and we could easily split it between the five of us. I chose to do 1900-1920s(ish), I started by searching on google for a 2D animation timeline to give me a starting point. The first thing I looked at was the magic wheel also known as the phenakistoscope made by Belgain Joseph Plateau in 1831, you could see the images throught the splits at the side and when spun it made the images 'move' or animate.











In 1869 John Barnes Linnet patterned the flipbook. Patterns were put in place on most new technquies in animation due to the rapid evolution of it, so people had to protect there technquies from bigger and more successful animators and scientists.
The Phenakistoscope was enhanced with a mirror in the middle insted of the old version were you had to look through slots. The mirror kept the images steady and also aloud the images to be projected on the a surface.

As machines were being made to make images move J.Stuart Blackton in 1906 used a camera to animate his images by taking one after he editted the drawing which has been a basic way to do animate even now. His most famous animation was the Humorous phases of funny faces which was simply chalk and blackboard.

Wisor Mc Cat and Wallace Carlson were two of the best animators around 1910, McCay made over four thousand animations and successfuly managed to get movement down to an art but Carlson had the witt for more entertaining animations, he also started off the style that was picked up by Walt Disney.

    












Wallace Carlson

Wisor McCay


The presentation
I think on the hole our presentation went well, we met twice to sort out who was doing what and to share information. We left making the power point to the day of the presentation which let us down because we didn't have time to sort out what would look best and to add links to videos to show the animations. We decided to not put any information of the power point excluding names, we chose to do this because we didn't want people trying to read, listen and look at the images, in our experience we found it hard to listen when there was too much information on screen.
I feel the work was evenly distributed but we failed to allocate the job of the power point to one person which probably would of been better than taking it in turns to do our slides ourselves, if I were to do it again I would give myself the job of doing the PowerPoint because I don't mind putting in some research on how to get different effects and how to add videos.
The entire group gave great encouragement and feedback on ideas and criticism, Anne also made a face book group so we could arrange times, meeting places and also to share relevant information to each other.