I found this out on a website I was on with things unseen before, and I found out that even games repeat or use the same things again and again even in a different way that you wouldn't notice at all. (repeat cycle)

I got it from-http://www.barnorama.com/hidden-and-unseen-stuff/2/

What is limited animation?

What is a repeat cycle in animation and why would it be used?


It's when they repeat something over and over again to save money.

For example-someone talking and using the same face and body ,just different voices or words. Or scenes are sometimes repeated.

they use repeat cycle in animations like:


.....and many more.


Who first developed the use of a repeat cycle in animation, and why did they use it?


Disney and Hanna and Barbera did it at the same time because it was cheap.

What is the difference between a cyclic repeat and an oscillate cycle?

• Cyclic is 1,2,3,4 repeated exactly the same order.
• Oscillate is 1,2,3,4 but then turned reverse order to 4,3,2,1 starting to the same position.

How can a character be created to make 'limited animation' easy to do?

They make it easy to do as they use objects or clothing to hide a part of their head or arms and legs that can be moved and nothing else on the body. Like neck-ties or a prominent collar.

Who developed 'limited animation' and what does it mean?

Hanna and Barbera-they thought of the idea of "planned animation" (known aswell as limited animation)-means recycling the backgrounds and minimal movements.

sources:

• A User's Guide by Tom Meade
• BBC Article on the death of Barbera
• wikipedia
• pictures from google

What animation did you create?
Me and taylor made a cut out animation (with picture)
We were looking at Monty Python Animations

How did you create them? discuse the materials,equipment and techniques.
We used:

• pens
• paper
• scissors
• still photography cameras
• computer
• editing software
• a table
• magazines (to get the photos from)

What did you learn about aniamtion?
I learnt that, we shouldn't have anything in the background that shouldn't be there, and when you make an animation , make sure its smooth so when u watch it, it's clear and buch better looking, you can do this by maybe putting more frames in, that means small movements for your aniamtion.

What do you think would have improved your aniamtion, or made it more successful?
If we had more materials and more space and more time to do it in, think it would have been cleare if there was more lighting aswell.

Did you work in a group or alone? If you were in a group,what roles did you have?
I worked with Taylor:

my role-to move the picture to where they should be next

Taylor's role-to take the photos on the camera

What worked well in your animation?
The picture that we used and the idea that came together all fit, and esepecially the pciture that we chose.
Our story was people on a cat walk and then suddently, a gorgeous man comes along the cat walk and gets all the girls attention, so the man runs for it and his car comes up and he drives away leaving the girls. which suited withe the whole idea of the the cat walk people wearing glamerous clothes.

How does this aniamtion develop your aniamtion skills and how does it link with previous animations you've made?
It helps and it it gives us a chance to try out animation (making them) and know what we should improve on for other animations that we do...so they are better, and better.

The link to this video- http://www.youtube.com/cnsmedia?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#p/c/14/4QdCWbPeUS0

Harvie Krumpet

Harvie Krumpet

Made by- Adam Elliot

Narrated by- Geoffrey Rush

the size of the models are the size of wine bottles because Adam Elliot had a twitch, and it would of been hard to do the detail if they were small.
The materials that Adam used were plasticine (for the arms) car bog (for the head and torso) and wood (for the set)
Harvie Krumpet was made in October 2001-January 2003 (editing finished in Mat 2003).
It has won an Academy Award for Best Short Animation and 40 more major awards!
Elloit does not use computers to improve the look of the animation because he hoped people can relate to Harvie's life and see a little bit of him in themselves.
"I want people to feel his pain."- he doesn't use computers so he can keep the same dark lighting through out.

advantages for a filmmaker that are using physical models as characters is that it makes it look real and they can use real props for the animated characters to use. Also it makes it look more realistic.
The disadvantages of using physical models to tell a story is they can get damaged or broken or even lost and have to be made again or replaced, which will also take up valuable time.
Elliot's tremor contributed to the style of his animation to make an organic feel 'chunky-wonky' style that fed itno his style. the characters look like that because of his disorder.

What is limited animaiton?

Limited animation is when a scene or an animation is repeated again through the animation itself.
For example: in Yogi Bear's Big Break
The cars are repeated, when coming in to the 'Jellystone Park' and they go past Yogi Bear and Boo Boo Bear, the cars go round in circles in and out of the scene.

Hanna-Barbera used limited animation allot because it was cheap to do and so it saved them money and time to make the animation.
I tried the limited animation with my friend Dek with a ball going up and down, showing it repeating itself again and again, I only had to film it once going up and down then all I and to do after that was copy and pasted the same images that I took to make the video so it would repeated itself again and again and I could of still copy and pasted the images and make the video longer if I wanted to but I only wanted to show that i could do it and a tester to find if it would work or not in an animation.

And this is our results:

Sweeny Todd-Tim Burton

This is truly the closest film he has made that suites his way of making films, all his films cannot top this movie as Sweeny Todd has the most things that Tim Burton is known for, for example:

• the characters have dark circles around their eyes
• it a musical (some of his animations are musical)
• the story is dark
• very Gothic
• scary, as it's bloody and gruesome
• depressing
• deadly
• even at the happy parts of the movie is still sad looking
• and evil

video from youtube-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hgrfZVlJA&feature=fvsr