developers of animation

Developers of Animation


Willis O'Brian

He was an Irish American pioneering motion picture special effects artist who perfected and specialized in stop-motion animation. O'Brian would usually create his own animated characters out of clay althoug sometimes he would hire people to give the characer more effect.

Ray Harryhausen

Is an american film producer and also a special effects creator not only that but he also created his own brand of stop motion animation characters called dynamation. In Harryhausen's films, model animated characters interact with and are a part of, the live action world, with the idea that they will cease to call attention to themselves as animation.

Jan Svankmajer

Jan is known in the media due to his surreal animations and effective features on which he designed himself. Jan's profile has been progressive over many decades of his work as a stop motion animation creator with his funny images and also nightmare effective. His animations technique is usually not as funny an child like but more eerily.

The Brothers Qauy

The two identical brothers are born Americans and relocated to England to study at the Royal College of Art in London they began working with Keith Griffiths on which they were all a trio and formed Konick Studios. The are fluent stop motion animation creators which they focused on usuing puppets made of doll parts and used many other materials to create effect. Known for the substantial use of stop motion animation they also never used speech in any film created.

Tim Burton

Tim Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands also many others.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six minute black and white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker.

Aardman Animations

also known as Aardman Studios, is an Academy Award winning British animation studio based in Bristol. The studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.

Stop motion animation/ Planning

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0937 – Discussing ideas

0939 discuss character ideas

0941 discuss resources

0945 research idents

0949 summarise research

0952 channel research

0954 cbeebies ident is chosen idea

0956 colours used etc

0958 Meeting closed

Ive been researching CBBC's before and now and this is a clip i found that was used from 1994 to 1997. You can see the effects on this video have changed increasingly over the years and that the animations are also a lot more different with more effects to stop motion.

Over the years CBBC have created many little animation indents for their show and they use created effective animation like this one its simple.

History of the CBBC indents
The history of BBC television idents begins in the early 1950s, when the BBC first displayed a logo between programmes to identify its service.


I have been using plastesine to give me ideas of characters etc for my new indent these are just what i had in mind but most likely will create somehting different.

Pioneers of stop motion animation


Joseph Plateau


Joseph was the first person to demonstrate the illusion as a moving image, how he was able to do so he would user counter rotating disks with small increments of motion on one and on the other he would place slits into it. He called his work  phenakistoscope.

He also performed an experiment on which he stood an gazed into the sun for 25 seconds and repeater that sequence and later on in life lost his eye sight, he was fascinated by lumionous impressions.

William Horner

William was a Brittish Mathsmatician and a school master. He invented Zoetrope.

Horner published a mode of solving numerical equations of any degree, now known as Horner's method. According to Augustus De Morgan, he first made it known in a paper read before the Royal Society, 1 July 1819, by Davies Gilbert, headed A New Method of Solving Numerical Equations of all Orders by Continuous Approximation.