If you want to do animation, Marshall Animations.com is the place for you. You will learn what type of animation you want to do from stop motion to 3D, what programs and equipment you need to use and how to put it on the web!
What type of animation do you want to do?
Stop Motion:
Stop motion is when you take pictures of a still object and moving it slightly every time you take a picture. When you play all the pictures at a certain speed, that object will look like it would be moving. World Famous Wallace and Gromit, made by Aardman Animation Ltd. uses Stop Motion. Stop Motion requires a lot of time because for 10 seconds of film there is over a thousand picures. This is a Stop Motion Animtion
A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film which is created using Adobe Flash animation software or toon boom and often distributed in the .swf file format. It can be created in Flash or with other programs capable of writing .swf files. The term Flash animation not only refers to the file format but to a certain kind of movement and visual style which, in many circles, is seen as simplistic or unpolished. However, with dozens of Flash animated television series and countless more Flash animated television adverts, Flash animation is enjoying a renaissance.
Computer Animation is mainly 3D. Computer animation (or CGI animation) is the art of creating moving images with the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, though 2D computer graphics are still widely used for stylistic, low bandwidth, and faster real-time rendering needs. Sometimes the target of the animation is the computer itself, but sometimes the target is another medium, such as film. It is also referred to as CGI (computer-generated imagery or computer-generated imaging), especially when used in films. e.g: Sherk, Finding Nemo, Garfield the Movie (Garfield was CGI), The Incredibles, and more!
