Writing a Report

What is animation:
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D and
3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement, this theory was discovered by Paul Wells and his Quote was "A working definition of animation is that it is a film made frame by frame, providing an illusion of movement which has not been directly recorded in the conventional sense,".

What that means is that it takes a lot of hard work, patience and faithful devotion to drawing the charcters, scenes, props, special effects and have plenty of clear, loud voices to act out the characters, animation isn't like your everyday ordinary filming in the BBC or in Hollywood, animation is a distinctive art of drawing and creating illusions of movement, it may take a long time, but it will be worth it for you and for the audience who are prepared to watch your hard work.

Findings: I've tried Flash Animation by using stop motion and computer generated circulations of a blue ball going around an overal shape line, I've tried Flipbooks by flipping one page to another, therefore creating an illusion of a picture moving. I've also tried the Bird and Cage technique, it was the easiest because using a piece of cardboard, two pieces of string while there's a picture on each side and twisting it makes an illusion that there is a bird inside a cage and finally I've studied animation in real life by watching an advert of Hula Hoops and saw how they move, that too was stop motion by hand.

Colclusion: I feel that the type of animation I would like to make for my final piece would be Fantasia, because Fantasia is a classical musical film being played in several different pieces of music, even though it was a failure, it was still the most inspiring piece of animation one could ever see, maybe it was a flop because the 1940s wasn't really a great time for the film to be released, there was a World War going on back then, it wasn't like 101 Dalmatians that was released in the year 1960, now that timeline was the best time to be released, perhaps Fantasia should've been created and released a few years after the war.