Animators Research Task by Mohammed Sharif

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Animator Research Work

By Mohammed Sharif

 

Ray Harryhausen was an American Filmmaker whose practical, visual effects & stop-motion animation, inspired other filmmakers to use his principles in their animations and/or CG work, today.

Ray Harryhausen was well-known for his stop motion animations & use of real-life footage, combining the two elements together to make it seem like the creatures he used to animate were real & in the scene, making the audience feeling puzzled & questioning "how this was possible?" .  Many of Harryhausen’s work consisted of a variety of monsters featured in, King Kong, 20 Million Miles to Earth & It Came from Beneath the Sea.



Using the real-life footage of a scene, Harry’s method of bringing these creatures to life would be to project the real-life footage of the scene using a single frame projector & would pause one frame at a time so, he could animate each frame. Then, during editing, each frame would be combined into an animation sequence. Finally, the live action & the stop motion animation would be composited into once scene, making it seem like the creature in an action scene, real. 




John Lasseter

John Lasseter was born on January 12th, 1957 in California. He's most known for being a former Creative Director at Pixar and he's known for his movies such as the Toy Story franchise, Cars, & many others as they consisted of cutting-edge 3d graphics which were rare in movies back in the late 80s/early 90s. Toy Story was the first feature-length film to be fully 3D Animated & it was a success. 



Lasseter when he was a child, won an art competition & since, he read about how the feature-length Disney film, Sleeping Beauty was made & animated, he was inspired to pursue a career in animation. Lasseter was hired as an animator by Disney to work on the films, The Fox and the Hound & Mickey's Christmas Carol but, was fired in 1983. In the same year, Lasseter was hired by Lucasfilm to direct an animated short film called, The Adventures of André & Wally B. The short film was produced by the Graphics Group (now known as Pixar & bought by Disney), a former division of Lucasfilm. The Graphics Group was bought by Apple, by Steve Jobs and have been known as the company "Pixar". 

The short film, The Adventures of André & Wally B, 

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