Genres of Animation

Tv Animation


Tv Animation would be just like CBBC a childrens programme on which the use of animation is a lot as the children like to watch cartoon like characters and example would be Dora the Explorer you can see the use of animation as thats all is.




Channel Idents


Channel idents like the BBC 3 one was made by the same company as CBBC as you can see their both similar with the same use of animation that was created. The idents will usually all have something in comment as little as the same techniques of animation or different uses.






Cinema


In the cinema there are many animated films coming out in to the industry which all are targeted for people who like the animation. The animation film Toy Ttory has been animated but the characters were drawn and in the animated film Chicken Run you can see that the charatcers that were created by clay. the cinemas focus on films with anaimation because it sells out laods in the industry as because they are really good and effective on plenty in the target audience.






Advertising


On the Tv adertising theres Underdog which is a plastacine character or clay animated that has been used for the company. The use of the animated character is to just bring a different distraction to the audience or to anyone who may be watching the advert. As most adverts have started to use animation because its different, useful and effective.






Music Video


A music video ive known to be in some form of animation in use is Katy Perrys Calafornia girls video which has gummy bears walking which obviously its unreal but created to be, the use of animation in the video would be to set a different setting and created as effective as because katy is a famous singer and to upgrade her image and using different characters in videos would may boost her appearence in the music industry.






Computer Games


Computer games are the most common created animation themed technology, they are created for the use of children or adults any catergory infact. The animation seems to bring a different use to watch or play reality games because there boring and old but the animation brings different effects to the audience on what their playing. A well known animated game would be COD aka Call of Duty. The game is well known in the industry today and is played by millions of different people around the world because of its graphics and design of animation.








Mobile Phones


Mobile phones have become one of the latest technologies in the world today and you can have so many different things uploaded or you can create many things the mobile is created for more then it was many years ago. One of the first animated videos able to be put on your phone was the crazy frog And the crazy chicken they were animated characters that were produced and had a crazy ringtone both characters had their differences like the chich would sing words but the frog would have a beat like the animated characters were a big sell out for people with mobile phones as everyone wanted them.