Animation Timeline

Astro Boy (1963)

Plot

In the year 2000 AD, the scientist Dr. Boynton, grief-stricken over the death of his son, Astor Boynton, III, in a car accident, decides to create a super-robot in his sons image. He calls it Astro Boy. Astro Boy can swim oceans, leap over mountains, even fly into space on his own power! When Astro Boy fails to grow, Dr. Boynton is disappointed at having created the imperfect child machine and disowns the youngster and Astro Boy falls into a series of misadventures. He is saved  by Dr. Packadermus J. Elefun, who becomes his friend, conscience, and legal guardian throughout the series.
Astro Boy was one the first television series to ever be adapted from manga published in 1952 (first of anime ), then was remade varies time through out 2003 , 2007 and a film in 2009.
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The original series was made a the traditional technique called cel shading. There was often a top cel sheet where the lineart (art with only lines) was. This was inked with marker and then followed by the background cel sheet which slid underneath and was coloured again, with marker with some additions in watercolour done on a separate cel sheet. This was a very long process and is greatly admired by many animators.

                   Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972)

         Plot

This colour Animated Saturday-morning television cartoon about Fat Albert and his friends. The situations portrayed usually had morals and messages to children as these kids got into and out of various kinds of trouble.

This educational Tv showed debuted In 1972 - 1985 on CBS as its first run, and syndication for its last year, This show was too educational for NBC.

Galaxy express 999 (1981)

Plot

set in a space-faring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds (but not their emotions) into mechanical bodies, therefore humans are practically immortal.

This title has many series and a films under its name,The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 1978 and the anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981.

The title film was done in a Traditional Animation style using Cel Shading.


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A Guide to the Animated Batman Shows (1990s onwards)

1992-95 Batman: The Animated Series

 The “classic” Batman, the one that started it all, it seems. With Bruce Timm’s individual animation style that’s been used in other TV shows (Justice League, Justice League: Unlimited) it had a dark film noir animation The villains we see are the usual recurring characters such as, The Penguin, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Scarecrow, Catwoman, The Riddler, etc.

1999-2001 Batman Beyond

 This is a sequel to  an older batman animation and is set deep in the future when Bruce Wayne is no longer able to carry on being Batman and so decides to mentor a replacement. 17 year old Terry McGinnis, becomes the new Batman, has a new suit and a very different attitude than Bruce did. This show also stars some cool people such as Terry’s girlfriend Dana and computer genius Maxine also new villains make an appearance in the futuristic Gotham City.


2008-11 Batman: The Brave and the Bold

This show is much lighter in tone than any of the batman animations and is set in the 1940s origins with the hero and heroines’ costumes. Each episode features two parts: a adventure short before the theme song and the main storyline after. The introductory adventure has no relation to the main adventure. Each episode contains a lot of  heroes from the DC Universe, as Batman teams up with them to save the day.


2013- Beware the Batman

The newest Batman show – now in CG animation. The creators are bringing in less popular villains to mix things up.

                                 CGI

 

Step One: Scripting , like with any animation technique a script is created on the scene layout and what is happening within the scene.
Step Two: Story boarding, after the script is done they storyboard the script and it is drawn out into many 2D drawings, showing a rough sketch of whats going on and whats in that scene.
Step Three: Layout, the character designs and backgrounds are rendered in 3D. Animators then create basic models of each 3D character, using clay or a 2D sculpture as referencing. Once the 3D characters & backgrounds are made they begin positioning and finding what test shots to use and the movements in the scene.
Step Four: Animation, the basic character models are now posed and moved to their finalized movements. Everything from mouth flaps to footsteps are created at this stage. Similar to 2D animation, each frame is created and then tweaked very slightly from one frame to the next.
Step Five: hair, lighting, and textures, are placed onto the animation, this is hardest step as every sing hair is animated and so its  hard to keep track of.

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