A report on Animation and Character animation

Nr. 10 in the reworked second series of Stampfer's stroboscopic discs published by Trentsensky & Vieweg in 1833.

A projecting praxinoscope, from 1882, here shown superimposing an animated figure on a separately projected background scene

Italian-Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani showing the cut and articulated figure of his satirical character El Peludo (based on President Yrigoyen) patented in 1916 for the realization of his films, including the world's first animated feature film El Apóstol.

An example of traditional animation, a horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos.

A clay animation scene from a Finnish television commercial

A 2D animation of two circles joined by a chain

World of Color hydrotechnics at Disney California Adventure creates the illusion of motion using 1,200 fountains with high-definition projections on mist screens.

Character animation is a specialized area of the animation process, which involves bringing animated s to life.

- Character animation

The "look" of traditional cel animation is still preserved, and the character animators' work has remained essentially the same over the past 70 years.

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Motion capture

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Process of recording the movement of objects or people.

Motion capture performers from Buckinghamshire New University

Reflective markers attached to skin to identify body landmarks and the 3D motion of body segments

A dancer wearing a suit used in an optical motion capture system

Markers are placed at specific points on an actor's face during facial optical motion capture.

A high-resolution uniquely identified active marker system with 3,600 × 3,600 resolution at 960 hertz providing real time submillimeter positions

IR sensors can compute their location when lit by mobile multi-LED emitters, e.g. in a moving car. With Id per marker, these sensor tags can be worn under clothing and tracked at 500 Hz in broad daylight.

Motion tracking in swimming by using image processing

In filmmaking and video game development, it refers to recording actions of human actors, and using that information to animate digital character models in 2-D or 3-D computer animation.

Low latency, close to real time, results can be obtained. In entertainment applications this can reduce the costs of keyframe-based animation. The Hand Over technique is an example of this.

Pinocchio (1940 film)

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Dickie Jones (right, as an adult) voices Pinocchio in the film.

Commentator Nicholas Sammond considers Pinocchio to be a metaphor for American child rearing in the mid-20th century.

Geppetto, primarily animated by Art Babbit, and Pinocchio at Magic Kingdom

Pinocchio's village, Disneyland, inspired by Gustaf Tenggren paintings

Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1883 Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.

In contrast to the character animators who concentrate on the acting of the characters, effects animators create everything that moves other than the characters.