What are the common forms of animation

Traditional animation is an art form that has been around for more than a century, and in the simplest terms, it's a "moving" picture. Like movies, it utilizes the phenomenon of "visual retention" of the human eye to make a set of static images play continuously and look like they are moving. It looks as if it is moving. He should be categorized as a movie art. Traditional animation has experienced more than 100 years of development and has become more and more influential. A good cartoon image will be remembered for a lifetime, indicating that traditional animation has its unique charm.

Flash is a new thing that appeared in recent years, it is a multimedia animation software launched by the American company MACROMEDIA. It is an interactive animation design tool with which music, sound effects, and animation can be easily integrated to produce high-quality motion effects, or animation.

Traditional Animation can accomplish many complex and difficult animation effects, almost anything one can imagine it can do. It can also produce a wide variety of art styles. Especially for big scenes and big productions, traditional animation can create a magnificent picture and its delicate art effects. For example, in Disney's animation "The Lion King", the opening sequence - mixed with a magnificent song "Born to Run" all the animals are gathered together to the newborn lion king to express their greetings and loyalty. It's a magnificent scene, and some of the animals' forms are meticulously portrayed. A kind of shock is born.

Advantages of Flash ①Simple operation and low hardware requirements. Facts can be illustrated, how many non-animation staff made their own animated films overnight, which is unimaginable in earlier years. And does not require any investment in hardware, just an ordinary personal computer and a few related software, which and the traditional animation in the huge complexity of the professional equipment compared to the equipment is not at all. ② Stronger functions, can be integrated into a number of links in Flash to complete the animation, Flash is a set of many functions as a whole, drawing, animation editing, special effects processing, sound processing and other matters can be operated in this software. Compared with the traditional animation of multiple links by different departments, different personnel, separate operations, can be said to be simple and easy. ③ In many ways, it simplifies the difficulty of animation production, and many components can be reused. For example, the figure of the bird flying in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooting Heroes" appeared in the same way in "No Doubt". The same shot if in the past, with traditional animation methods, will require hundreds of animation, and with Flash, less than 20 animation can solve the problem, you can imagine how different the two. ④ The characters need to draw one image from each angle, which can be used repeatedly in different scenes, thus avoiding the problem of deformation in traditional animation production. ⑤ The controllability of Flash is strong. Controlling the quality of animation is a difficult problem in traditional animation production, and the quality of many films is not uniform. This is not because the level of production staff is too low, many times because of too many people involved in the production, the process is complex, and even many of the production staff is not in the same place, the communication between each link is not enough, a lot of operational links are not intuitive to find problems in time, even if you find that a certain part of the problem, but also due to the production cycle or rework the difficult to manipulate the quality of the film. And with flash animation production to a large extent to solve this problem, a small number of production staff can easily be concentrated in a studio, a few networked computers can easily call each other the required components needed, the director can monitor the progress of animation at any time, hit the keyboard can be visualized to see the animation effect. Problems can be solved immediately.

The limitations of traditional animation, traditional animation is to use a brush to draw a motionless, but gradually changing the dynamic picture, after the camera, video camera or computer frame by frame shooting or scanning, and then, to 24 frames per second or 25 frames per second speed of continuous projection or broadcasting, at this time, immobile picture in the screen or screen activity, which is a traditional animated film. A 10-minute ordinary cartoon requires thousands of frames to be drawn. Like we are familiar with the "big trouble in heaven" this 120 minutes of animation, need to draw more than 100,000 pictures. Such a heavy and complex drawing task, is dozens of animation workers, spend more than three years of hard labor results. The division of labor was too fine, and the equipment requirements were high.

Flash defects, with Flash to produce more complex animation is very laborious. For example, the character's turn to face action, animated characters from the front to the side or from the back to the front, etc., when the drawing is more laborious than with traditional methods. The limitations of vector drawing, drawing in the computer is not like drawing with a pencil on paper, it is difficult to control the accurate operation of the brush, if the style of drawing simple and cartoon characters is not a big problem, but to draw a realistic, detailed style of the character will be unable to do. Vector graphics also suffer from hard transition colors, making it difficult to draw rich, soft images.

With the development of the times, there will continue to be new things, animation is also the case, the early only very simple silhouette-like animation appeared, and then the technology and the form of the increasingly rich, derived from many types of animation, into the computer age and the emergence of computer animation, three-dimensional animation technology ...... but each form of animation expression But each form of animation expression does not conflict with each other, and often combined with each other, in recent years, some successful animated films are a variety of animation technology combination of works, such as "Tarzan of the Apes", "The Lion King" and so on.

With the passage of time Flash is also constantly improving, from the beginning of the simple characters and actions, to the current "girl, how long is your minute" and other works, which can be described as a qualitative leap. And that qualitative leap has happened in just a few short years.

Everything has its merits and defects. In the rapid development of science and technology today, people continue to improve technology, improve the quality of animation production. I believe that with the progress of technology there will be more and better animation works and Flash works appear.