Task 1 - Understand uses and principles of web animation

1.1 - Traditional animation (T1 Wk1) - EMMA

• Create a 5 second claymation with the title ‘the box’
• Create a short animation using Flash CC with the ‘onion skinning’ technique and tweening
• Explain the techniques used, and the technical details (such as frame rates, file format, resolution etc) of your animations.
• Explain the “persistence of vision” theory and compare it to one current theory surrounding the optical illusion of motion.  You should include a description, key dates, people and opinions. 

1.2 - History of animation (T1 Wk1) -KAROL

 

Create an illustrated explanatory timeline of the history of animation.  You should provide:

• a description of each technique,
• notable people related to the techniques,
• the advantages and disadvantages, 
• one analysed example for each technique. 

 

You should cover hand drawn (cel, zoetrope...); flick books; animated cartoon; animation process of the graphic information file format (gif); dynamic hypertext markup language (dHTML); extensible hypertext markup language (XHTML); Java applets.  Include snippets of animation code where appropriate.