1990 - Present day

Seth Macfarlane


Family guy

May 15th 1998 Seth MacFarlane showed Fox broadcasting a pilot of Family guy only lasting 7 minutes and they accepted it from the responses to be shown on TV and given money to produce more. After the third series in 2001 it was canceled by Fox due to the number of complaints made, but  the number of people paying for the DVDs and another animation company 'Adult Swim' which does a lot of stop motion animation of comedy convinced Fox to reproduce the show in 2004. The creator of Adult swim is also the voice of 'Chris' in Family guy. Seth MacFarlane does the voices of Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Glen Quagmire and many more.
He also produced a number of other animations
for example American Dad and The cleveland show.
Family guy mainly generates their comedy through
stereotypes from all countries even America and
religions. The show is based more for teenagers and
adults as there is a lot of swearing and ' adult themes'
for example some dark humour etc.


Matt Groening

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is based on an American Family. It was created by Matt Groening  in 1989 and is still going strong today. The writers were John Swartzelder, Jon vitti, George Meyer, Jeff Martin, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Jogen and Wallace Wolodarsky. The new Simpsons writers now consist of sixteen writers who all pitch their own ideas. Matt Groening also made 'Futurama' which is basically what he believes the normal family of the future will consist of with the same feeling as the simpsons. Both of which are still being made to date. The Simpsons is a family show which can be enjoyed by anyone, also they use slight swear words parents are not that bothered about letting their children watch it.


Nintendo 

Pokemon 

Pokemon was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996

but is owned and published by Nintendo. Pokemon has gone onto making many different Pokemon games, the Pokemon games are the worlds second more successful game franchise behind another Nintendo creation, Mario. The pokemon series have sold more than 200 million copies world wide. Pokemon, although when you watch it you would think it is based in America but as it is a Japanese show you can still recognise that there is Japanese influences in there. The pokemon show is based on children to start with but as people at a young age grow up with the show, it means that a lot of adults/ teenagers still like to play and maybe watch pokemon, as it is so recognisable to them and they are still able to enjoy it.


Aardman Animations 

Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit is a British series, The characters are moulded from plasticine and filmed through Stop motion animation. Wallace and Gromit was made in 1989 till present, The creator Nick Park made another other series like Shawn the Sheep and just recently a Film called The Pirates, which is also a plasticine stop motion animation film. Wallace and Gromit is a very 'British' series as they act like ordinary British people would rather than how americans behave. It is mainly a comedy but  can also be quite scary for a much younger audience.

Pixelation

Pixelation works by taking multiple photos of someone moving slightly each time. When these photos are played back in a normal pace it tricks your brain into thinking it is a moving image. You can make this type of animation with almost anything.

We made a quick 11 second animation to show how pixilation works. Pixilation is a series of still images put together one after another and when they are played back it tricks your brain into thinking the picture is moving. For pixilation to work the images need to be only slightly changed to make it look like a smooth transaction and to give you the best result. The frame rate was 12 images a second, the more frames a second means the smoother the result. The file export was a DV which is the highest quality file but it takes up the most memory to save. Then we exported the file into the public folder in our college so the entire group had access to the document and were able to upload the video to their own YouTube.
We are happy with the result of our stop motion animation, I did enjoy doing the animation and would not mind being in future animations. We have uploaded the video to youtube to allow it to be marked and for the public to watch.

1950s - 1970s

Animation from 1950s - 1970s


Looney toons

Bugs bunny 1950s

Bugs Bunny was made in America by Warner Bros and was first created in 1938. He is famous for his catch phrase 'eh... What's up, doc?" He was that popular that Warner Bros was known for him more than any other of their cartoons like and he ended up being in short films during the golden age of American animation.









Universal studios 

Woody Woodpecker 1960s

Woody Woodpecker was an animation made by Universal studios and became popular in the 1940s but continued for years. Woody Woodpecker was known for his "annoying" laugh. Woody woodpecker was originally owed by Lantz until his studio went bust and then he was bought buy Universal studios and he is still around today in Universal studios and he is also one of their most recognized cartoons.












Warner Bro's

Marine Boy 1966

Marine Boy when it was first aired was one of the first colour cartoons shown. It was first seen in Japan as Undersea Boy Marine but was changed when it was aired on U.S., UK, and Australian TV. The program was bought by Warner bro's from the Japanese before it was aired and this is why it had a name change.

Animation 1920s - 1950s

Norman McLaren



Dots - 1940

This animation was the first  abstract animation made. This animation
was an experiment were he dropped water droplets and paint droplets
onto the cell.

Neighbours - 1952

This was an animated film that includes stop motion and real time.
The most famous part of the film is the part were you are tricked into
thinking they are hovering, this was the most tricky part of the film
because you had to take the pictures just as your legs left the ground
as there is only a short time were you are in the air.



















Walt Disney



Steam Boat willie - 1928

Steam boat willie is one of the first animations to have sound.
Although there is not much actual talking involved in this animation
the sound effects are a big difference for the people in that time as
they had never seen it before. There was almost no talking in this
animation because lip syncing was very hard for them to do because
they did not have the technology we have today.

Snow White - 1937

Snow white was the first animated film to be made. This was the start
of many disney full length films which lasted 2 hours and was drawn
at 25 images per second, which is why it took them about 2-3 years to
complete.

















Max Fleischer

Betty Boop

Betty Boop was one of the classic Max Fleischer cartoons which had to
be sold off when they went out of business to Disney after their film
failed in the Boxoffice because it was over shadowed by Disney's
Snow white.

















Popeye - 1934

Popeye was also a black and white cartoon from Max Fleischer that had
the same fait as Betty boop when she was sold off when they went bankrupt.
When popeye was sold they changed his sailer suit to all white.