Adult Animation

Seth Macfarlane:

Seth was the creator of famous Adult animated comedies such as South Park, American Dad and Family Guy. South Park was created before family guy but now all his creations have millions of views.

Family Guy was created in 1999 and is still in production to this day. His more common ones are American Dad (2005-present) and the Cleveland Show (2009-present).

Seth is seen as a voice actor, director, animator and screenwriter. Which have all been used in these animations.

This is an example of Family Guy including an interview with Seth Macfarlane.


Matt Groening:

Matt is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. He created the famous Simpsons (1989-present) and Futurama (1999-2003 and again 2008-present).

The simpsons are really simple characteristic images and is seen as an adult animation. It is also suitable for the younger target audience unlike South Park or Family Guy. The Simpsons is seen as one of the most famous comedies. Since 1989 the characters have not really changed graphically but even to this day the simple drawings are still effective.

This is an Episode from Series 5 of the Simpsons creation, so it was quite an early stage in the animation. The Simpsons has over 20 Series and Episodes which show the development they made. As you can see they are simple but effective ideas and drawings.


Aardman Animations:

These are the company which created Wallace and Gromit. This Animation series is created by Nick Park. The characters of Wallace & Gromit and both moulded models. The plasticine they are made out of makes them easily movable and have been used ever since the show was created (1989-present). The Models are about the length of an adult arm but are made to look real human size in the animation.

Aardman Animations are a British animation studio based in Bristol. The business is well known for making stop motion clay animation techniques. Nick Park was famous for using models in Wallace & Gromit and the more common Shaun the Sheep.

This is an example of the plasticine figures in Wallace & Gromit, they are made to look human sized.


Nintentdo - Pokemon:

Nintendo were a Japanese video game which worked with Satoshi Jatiri in 1996 to create Pokemon. It was originally developed and created by Game Freak, who made Game Boy role-playing games. Since it was created Pokemon has become the 2nd most popular franchise in the world, after Nintendo's own Mario franchise.

From the actual animation and movies Pokemon has been developed and created into more interactive and physical things such as Toys, teddies and Pokemon cards. As of May 2010 the sales of the video games created based on Pokemon (Pikachu - Nintendo 64) had sold more than 200 million copies.

Satoshi Jatiri is a video game designer most famously known as the creator of Pokemon and the founder of development company Game Freak, inc. The games such as Pokemon red/green/blue took six years to create until they were released on Game Boy. This sparked a multi-Billion dollar franchise. Satoshi has also worked for other extremely famous animated games such as Mario and Zelda.


This is the Intro of Pokemon which has been around the same tune and lyrics all the way up to the present episodes. Simple images of characters and monsters but make it very effective.

Stop Motion Exercise

Stop Motion - Pixelation:

  My Stop Motion Animation exercise.












Pixelation is a series of still images (person in the video moving a tiny bit) this gives off the illusion that they are moving. We created a Pixelation that lasted 11 seconds showing you how it works.

We used software named iStopMotion, which has a frame rate of 12 images per second. Every click the person moved a tiny bit.

Once the animation was created and finalised we exported the video to the best quality onto the Desktop. This was so we could put it into the Public folder or onto the internet (YouTube).

The File format was exported as a DV, this was the biggest file but best quality.

As the animation was exported onto the Desktop this meant we could upload it into our college YouTube accounts. We simply clicked 'Upload' on the Youtube home screen and waiting for it to finish. Then I added a title and clicked save.

Once the video was uploaded for the public to see I could take the Embed code from the video. Then i copied the code, and uploaded it in my Blog. (Pasting the code into HTML).

I can now view my Stop Motion Animation in Blogger and Youtube on my account.

Example of Stop Motion (Pixelation)

An example is 'Neighbours' created by Norman McLaren. It was created in 1952 which took hundreds of photos. For each second 12 photos had to be taken. It lasted for around 8 minutes which showed the time and effort it must have took to make it look so smooth.

Here is Norman McLaren's Neighbours.

1970 - 1990 Animation

1970 - 1990:

Will Vinton - Closed Mondays (1975):

This was created by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner. This piece of stop motion named 'Closed Mondays' was the first Stop-Motion film to win an Academy Award for best animated Short.


Tim Burton - Vincent (1982):

This is another animation created by Tim Burton. Tim was well known for his range of animations at those times. Still to this day Tim is well known for making and helping with movies. For example 'Frankenweenie' which was released October 2012.

Nick Park - Creature Comforts (1989):

This is a piece made by Nick Park in 1989. In the same year he also released another piece named 'A grand day out'. This is when video lunchbox frame grabbing was inserted into stop motion animation.

Animation 1950s-1970s

Animation 1950s-1970s:

Looney Tunes - Bugs Bunny (1940s-2000s)

Bugs Bunny Cartoon "8 Ball Bunny" from 1950s. There are hundreds of more episodes from Looney Tunes.

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. is an Animated cartoon series. It has series for other cartoon characters such as Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.

Between 1942 and 1969 Looney Tunes was the most famous and popular short film cartoon series business.





Walter Lantz - Woody Woodpecker:

This is a Woody Woodpecker show from 1958. Named "Tree's a Crowd".

Walt Lantz was an American Cartoonist, who introduced Woody Woodpecker, when it was first released it attracted thousands of young viewers. It was Created by Walt but distributed by Universal Studios.

From the first release to 2011, the Universal-owned studio (Illumination Entertainment) announced a Woody Woodpecker to be made.



Oliver Postgate - Pogles Wood:

Oliver was the creator and writer of some of Britains most popular children's television programs. This included programs such as Noggin the Nog, Bagpuss, and more.

All the short films he set up were by his own company set up with Peter Firmin named "Smallfilms". they were in partnership with BBC which allowed their shows to be broadcasted on the BBC between 1950-1980. In 1959 ITV allowed them to present the day.

The Pogles wood characters were made out of clay or some relative material. The detail was not very good (eyes or mouth did not move) but the story-lines attracted a lot of attention at that era.

Warner Bros. - Marine Boy:

This was first released in 1966 in the USA, then later in Australia and the UK. It was originally produced in Japan as "Undersea Boy Marine" by the Japanese Animation company named Japan Tele-Cartoons. Later on Warner Bros. / Seven Arts Television bought this animation and distributed a Worldwide English version.

Marine boy was one of the first colour animations shown as a TV program, it developed more when it was handled by the US.

Around 1930s - 1950s Animation

Norman McLaren:

He created videos such as Dots, Neighbors and A phantasy in Colors.

This is an example of Normans video "Dots". It was a new experiment/creation where Norman just spilt dots of paint and colors onto the film and added music on top. This was made in 1940.

This is another example of Norman Mclarens videos called "Neighbors". This included real life actors and cardboard cutouts. Norman used models in parts of the movie such as the houses and flower. And real actors for the 2 men. Norman made the men look like they are flying by having them jump continuously and then taking a picture whilst in mid air. This was made in 1952.







Walt Disney:

This company is still extremely famous to this day. In the 1930s to 50s they created videos and animations such as Steamboat Willie, Snow White and more.

This animation took 3 years to create. It was made up of 25 images per second. So by the end thousands of drawings had been created. This animation had voices in which showed a development. With the voices they needed to make the drawings and animations lip sync which would have took even more time.

This is another of Walt Disney's creations called Steamboat Willie. This was created in 1928 so it was in black and white. Lip syncing was not invented at this time so there was no talking. The animation was what made Steamboat Willie famous.










Tom & Jerry:

Tom & Jerry have made thousands of chapters and scenes throughout their career. The animation is a comedy and is still famous and popular to this day. Many new Tom & Jerry scenes have been created with more modern technology. For example when the first ever series came out they did not include computers because they were not invented.

This is an example from 1956 of one of the first Tom & Jerry. It was created from a company named Hanna Barbera. As you can see it included sound and colour even at this early stage.

This is a more modern version of Tom & Jerry (2012) it shows the better quality and how the main characters have developed. As you can see the animation moves alot better and smoother.












Max Fleischer:

This was a company named the Fleischer Brothers. They made classical animations such as Popeye and Betty Boop. These were famous for years but in the later stage of the Fleischer Brothers careers they went out of business. Some f the designers managed to get a job working and designing for Walt Disney.

This was created by Max Fleischer in 1936. The movie included sound over the top like a soundtrack. The video shows colour but is not a very good quality.

This was another one of Max Fleischers classics "Popeye" in 1934. This was just animated drawings in black and white. It had sound but not really and clear voices. Since that day Popeye has been modernized and made with sound and colour etc.










There are many others in this development of the Animation Era. From the 1950s the animations continued to develop making them better sound, movement and quality.