Animation and Animation films

     Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is due to a phenomenon called persistence of vision which is an optical illusion of motion. Animation films can be date back to the early 20^th century and are well developed and fairly popular in nowadays.

     Here I will introduce three animation movies which I consider most outstanding in the world and attracted billions of people as well as billions of box-office income.

     The first one I would like to show is of course the landmark Toy Story, which was the first completely computer-generated animated feature film, achieved though the collaboration between Pixar Studios and Disney in 1995.

     The story is about an adventure of several toys that somehow come to life. It begins with a conflict between a cowboy toy named Woody and a new comer Buzz to fight for their owner’s favor. After the great success of the first movie, a series of three in total came out later and won a grand reputation. It was ranked best in some cartoon movie ranking websites.

 

     WALL-E is another very successful cartoon movie won by its moving and educational story. This film is also produced by Pixar Studios and Disney and was a quite new one that came out in 2008.

     WALL-E (meaning Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is the name of a waste-removal robot in the year2700 who discovered a valuable plant on the rubbish-covered earth and tried to tell human beings to go back to earth. At that time, human beings are living in a highly intelligent place but people are getting much fatter and lazier than we are now. In the story, WALL-E fell in love with another robot, EVE, and their love also moved many people.

     Then I will introduce another kind of animation, clay animation, which is one of many forms of stop animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable" — made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay.  One of the representative film is Chicken Run made by the Aardman Animation studios in 2000. 

     The story is again simple but very interesting. It happened in a chicken farm where  Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken was raised. However, they decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom. The success due to the funny feature and the good story.

     Other great movies include UP(2009), Finding Nemo(2003), Spirited Away(2001), My Neighbour Totoro(1988), etc. All the animation mivies are eye feast, and inspired us when we laugh.
     
     In later blogs I will introduce MORE GREAT CARTOON to u! Don't miss it!

reference: http://www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html
                 http://blog.moviefone.com/2008/06/02/feature-page-5-1_m_f/
                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation