Stop motion animation: types of animation

Types of animation:

Cartoon:

Cartoon animation is made by drawings. There are known as frames. There are 25 frames in a second. There are so many example of cartoon animation like the Simpsons, Tom and Jerry and many more. Cartoons are not just television they can be movies to like Dumbo, Snow White and lots more. As time has gone on cartoon animations have become better quality.

This is the link to the trailer of the original snow white and the seven dwarfs. This was the first ever full length colour cartoon film of its time. In was made by Disney in 1937.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esv5VVJZsFk

This is a link to a Tom and Jerry episode. This was made in 1941 and shows that cartoon animation can be used for comedy and violence as well as Disney princess films.

Model:

Model animation is made by making models. These models can be made by Lego, plaster seen and lots more. Animations that are made by models are Wallace and Gromit, morph and lots more. Just like cartoon animation these can be made into movies as well. Just like Cartoon animation the quality has improved a lot more like you can hardly see that the characters were made out of plaster seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39rS21tQDc

This link shows you an episode of the sense morph. Morph first appeared in 1977 with Tony Hart. This shows that clay is a good material for making models in stop motion animation films or series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0qagA4_eVQ

This is a short clip out of the episode a great day out in the series Wallace and Gromit. This was made in 1989 by Nick Park.

Cut out:

Cut out animation is made by cutting out bits of material to make the background and characters. Materials like photographs, paper and fabrics. Examples of cut out animation are Charlie and Lola, The Adventures of Prince Achmed and heaven and earth magic. Charlie and Lola is a piece of model piece of cutout animation. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMpXUd_kesA

This is a short film that lasts for 5 minutes called the miracle of flight. It was made in 1974 by a man called Terry Gilliam. It is a comedy short film and made in the style of comedy as Monty Pythons. This is an example of old cut out animations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0c89YrPo4

This is a children’s TV show called Charlie and Lola. This is more of a modern example of cut out animation and shows how much Cut out animation has changed since the 1970s. It implies how cut out animation can be used for children’s shows as well as comedy short films.