Thursday 17 October 2013

animation

Scooby Doo




Scooby-Doo is an American cartoon, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to this very day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday morning cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred JonesDaphne BlakeVelma Dinkley and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and their talking brown Great Dane. dog named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.



Yogi Bear 

Yogi Bear is a family cartoon character. it was created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, who has appeared in numerous comic booksanimated television shows and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. Yogi Bear was the first breakout character created by Hanna-Barbera and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound. In January 1961, he was given his own show, The Yogi Bear Show, sponsored by Kellogg's, which included the segments Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle. Hokey Wolf replaced his segment on The Huckleberry Hound Show. A musical animated feature film, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear, was produced in 1964.



Postman Pat

Each episode follows the adventures of Pat Clifton, a friendly country postman, and his "black and white cat" Jess, as he delivers the post through the valley of Greendale. Although he initially concentrates on delivering his letters, he nearly always becomes distracted by a concern of one of the villagers and is usually relied upon to resolve their problems. Notable villagers include the postmistress, Mrs. Goggins; Alf Thompson, a farmer; and the local handyman and inventor, Ted Glen.

The Flintstones

he show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock. it was also referred to as  In this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurssaber-toothed tigerswoolly mammoths, and other long-extinct animals co-exist with cavemen. Like their mid-20th century counterparts, these cavemen listen to records, live in split-level homes, and eat out at restaurants, yet their technology is made entirely from pre-industrial materials and largely powered through the use of animals. For example, the cars are made out of stone, wood, and animal skins.

Thursday 10 October 2013

Disney

DISNEY

Snow White is a fictional character and a main character from Walt Disney Productions first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The character of Snow White was derived from a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe. Snow White is the first Disney Princess, and the first fictional female character with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

history of tom and jerry

Tom & Jerry
Fred Quimby




Quimby was born in Minneapolis, and started his career as a journalist. In 1907, he managed a film theater in Missoula, Montana. Later, he worked at Pathé, rising to become a member of the board of directors before leaving in 1921 to become an independent producer.
In 1939, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera presented him with their project for a series of cartoons featuring a cat and a mouse. Quimby approved,and the result was Puss Gets the Boot, which was nominated for an Academy Award. 

Thursday 3 October 2013

animation

winsor mccay 
Zenas Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator. Since a young age, McCay was a prolific, technically dextrous artist. He began his professional career making posters and performing for dime museums, and began illustrating newspapers and magazines in 1898.  his signature strip Little Nemo in Slumberland debuted, a work which demonstrated McCay's mastery of colour and linear perspective.  McCay joined William Randolph Hearst's chain of newspapers in 1911, after which his comic strip, vaudeville, and animation work was gradually curtailed as Hearst expected him to devote his energies to editorial cartooning.

stop motion animation


George merlies

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was born on the 8th of December 1861 in Paris to Jean-Louis-Stanislas Méliès and his Dutch wife, Johannah-Catherine Schuering.  A Trip to the Moon, released in the UK initially as Trip to the Moon,is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès
The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 399–411 in its catalogues. Its total length is about 260 meters of film which, at Méliès's preferred projection speed of 12 to 14 frames per second,is about 17 minutes.
 An internationally popular success at the time of its release, it is the best-known of the hundreds of films made by Méliès, and the moment in which the spaceship lands in the Moon's eye remains one of the most iconic images in the history of cinema It was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century.