Dougal talks about the John Lewis advert
In the video, Dougal explains the original brief for the project and some of the decision-making process. He takes us through the detail of his sketchbooks, considering the importance of …
Course: Explore Animation
Vicky explains pixilation
Vicky Mather’s graduation film, Stanley Pickle, is this week’s featured animation. Vicky talks us through the process of making the film and the technique itself. Again the process highlights the …
Careers
Several of our contributors tell us how they got into animation. As with the NFTS graduate and current animators, they have come via very different routes. Some of our contributors …
Tony talks about Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
Tony talks about selling a programme to different markets with different languages. In Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! the programme was written with the constraints of language in mind, by creating a …
6 principles of animation
Below is a brief description of the six principles. You may find them useful for analysing existing animations or for having a go at creating your own. 1. Staging Staging …
How does cel animation work?
Tony explains how cel animation works and emphasises that, although much of the production process now takes place on computers, most of the principles remain unchanged. Working at first on …
Flip book task
What you will need: a packet of post-it notes or a pad of paper a sharp pencil good quality black art pen (optional) coloured pens (optional) TASK We would like …
Persistence of vision: how does animation work?
Animation works by using an optical illusion. By presenting a sequence of still images in quick enough succession, the viewer interprets them as a continuous moving image. This is the …
Aardman Studios
Animation is a methodical and time-consuming process. You can animate on your own but if you want to make ambitious projects then, as for any film production, you need a …
