2016年8月12日星期五

anime, "Claymation"

From surreal claymation to serious accounts of war and revolution, animation has much to offer grownups.

The 10 greatest animated films for adults

They're not just for children.

BBC.COM|由 OWEN GLEIBERMAN AND NICHOLAS BARBER 上傳

Behind the scenes of Japan's popular anime movies, discontent among low-paid artists is growing and DVD demand is slipping.

Adam Elliot won his first Oscar for his half-hour claymation called "Harvie
Krumpet" in 2004 .

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew0aocI44va89pI4

anime
n.
A style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes.

[Japanese, short for animēshon, animation, from EnglishANIMATION .]

Clay animation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay. The portmanteau term "Claymation" is a registered trademark in the United States, registered by Will Vinton in 1978 to describe his clay animated films. While the word is not considered a genericized trademark, it has become a trademark which is often used generically in the US to refer to any animation using plasticene or similar substance.
All traditional animation is produced in a similar fashion, whether done through cel animation or stop-motion. Each frame, or still picture, is recorded on film or digital media and then played back in rapid succession. When played back at a frame rate greater than 10-12 frames per second, a fairly convincing illusion of continuous motion is achieved. While the play-back feature creating an illusion is true of all moving image (from zoetrope, to films to videogames), the techniques involved in creating CGI are generally removed from a frame-by-frame process.