What kind of Animation do you enjoy most

[Bugthing]

Or French stuff like Les Triplets de Belville. There more to the western world than Disney.

 

Does puppet animation count? I love the Norwegian one where they race cars.

[Srake]

I was gonna choose the last choice but then I noticed that it said Animation is for 5 year olds. I thought it said Animation for 5 year olds.

[Kyon]

I was gonna choose the last choice but then I noticed that it said Animation is for 5 year olds. I thought it said Animation for 5 year olds.

 

The option for people that hate it.

 

Edit: No need for hostility Jexius-shi (Tell me if I'm doin it wrong.)

Edited August 7, 2011 by Guest (see edit history)

[Descriptor]

Western, hands down.

Of course, I really don't like anime at all, so...

 

And Futurama, that pretty much cements it.

[Selkie]

Edit: No need for hostility Jexius-shi (Tell me if I'm doin it wrong.)

 

I don't claim to know too much about honorifics, but I would settle for a Jexius-san to be safe.

 

Shi (氏 【し】?) is used in formal writing, and sometimes in very formal speech, for referring to a person who is unfamiliar to the speaker, typically a person known through publications whom the speaker has never actually met. For example, the shi title is common in the speech of newsreaders. It is preferred in legal documents, academic journals, and certain other formal written styles. Once a person's name has been used with shi, the person can be referred to with shi alone, without the name, as long as there is only one person being referred to.

 

While he is someone you've never met in person and are probably unfamiliar with, I wouldn't necessarily call this formal speech/writing.

 

IDK. I could be horribly wrong and insulting him for all I know. Damn honorifics confuse the hell out of me.

[BTGBullseye]

Well since you put 'Anime' instead of 'Japanese' I had to vote for the IDC option.

 

No 'Hentai' option? WTF were you thinking?!?

[Kyon]

Well since you put 'Anime' instead of 'Japanese' I had to vote for the IDC option.

 

No 'Hentai' option? WTF were you thinking?!?

 

Hentai typically refers to both written and animated works. And no, I won't add it, this doesn't need to be about forms of erotica.

[Nagisa]

Well since you put 'Anime' instead of 'Japanese' I had to vote for the IDC option.

 

No 'Hentai' option? WTF were you thinking?!?

 

Hentai typically refers to both written and animated works. And no, I won't add it, this doesn't need to be about forms of erotica.

Hentai == Pervert basically, anime porn basically got that nickname because it's Japanese.

[Kyon]

Well since you put 'Anime' instead of 'Japanese' I had to vote for the IDC option.

 

No 'Hentai' option? WTF were you thinking?!?

 

Hentai typically refers to both written and animated works. And no, I won't add it, this doesn't need to be about forms of erotica.

Hentai == Pervert basically, anime porn basically got that nickname because it's Japanese.

 

It means strange but it is usually used in the context of pervert if you wanna get technical.

[Blue]

Most of the differences in Animation fall in their technical distinction rather than the geographic timbres of their development (pointing out the options in the poll). These geographic timbres come from particular cultural interests, with economic imperatives of their time and development contributing. Thus the poll leans much more to the 'Genre' side of Animation in general, instead of its actual distinctions.

Technically there are only two kinds of animation: "True", "Pure" or "Complete" animation and Limited Animation.

Animation depends on keyframes. The kinds differentiate between how they are interpolated.

True animation uses entirely new drawings every single frame. This makes it very fluid and clean, especially when the keys are very well done.

Keyframes sheet from Bambi. There would be anywhere from 5 to 15 inbetweens for each of these keyframes, all would be stringently controlled by an Editor and the Animation supervisor. Thus this simple shot of the deer moving could be as much as 100 unique frames for a few seconds of footage.

Pure Animation is typically very expensive and time consuming, and is relegated for usage almost exclusively for Movies. Every single Disney feature film is a Pure Animation picture.

 

Limited Animation uses many shortcuts and tricks in order to greatly reduce the amount of work requried to get a shot to completion. This commonly takes the form of using repetition of shots or animated elements, and many hidden seams to hide where things don't absolutely have to be animated. A prime example of this is Yogi bear, who's necktie was there to hide the seam between his head (which was animated pure to sync with what he was saying) and his body (on a 8-16 frame long walking loop, cycled repeatedly).

There are many dozens of techniques that are used to cut down the amount of work required to make a half hour show that are utilized in Limited Animation, hiding multiple component character seams just being one cod example. Japanese and other nation's animation techniques also developed following the Animation rush of the 1960s. A very famous example in Japan is the Limited Animation technique of the Actor-to-Animation Dub. Tradtionally in North American animations, Animation-To-Actor was employed; Sound was recorded, and that set the timing for the animation, which would follow. In Japan, the animation was finished and the actor had to dub their voice to the motions of the character's mouth, with the character simply saying "Waydle waydle waydle woo" repeatedly. Again, another cod example of Limited Animation.

Limited Animation is the only one that is easy, fast, cheap or efficient enough to produce a TV show using only animation. Very often to hide most of the Limited Animation techniques, the show goes for a stylistic appearance in order to allow any weirdness the audience notices under their willing suspension of disbelief because of the cartoony nature of the thing they're already watching.

Color, character design, backgrounds, music, all that sort of stuff is all subjective stuff to the will of the show's creator and director, but the main technical difference is if it's Pure Animation or Limited. In the technical respect then, everything from My Little Pony, Bleach, Arthur, The Simpsons and ReBoot are all the same because they use tricks of the trade to reduce the overhead complexity of the shows they want to create, and simplify how it's made without reducing the quality to the average viewer.

 

Animation is what the show is made of, Genre is what the show is about.

Edited August 7, 2011 by Guest (see edit history)

[Blue]

TL;DR

So far most people have been pointing out their favorite Genre of "Thing they've seen that was made with Animation", because that's what was asked.

The actual kinds of Animation basically fall into "the kind used to make a movie" and "the kind used to make a TV show", and if you call Animation a genre I will punch you in the mouth.

[Selkie]

/sigh... you know what we mean....

[Kyon]

Blue, you just love to get technical do you.

[Selkie]

Leave it to Blue to add high level intellect to a topic about favorite cartoon styles.

[Dr. Derpy Hooves Ph.D]

Quick note to blue: Screw logic.

[Blue]

Blue, you just love to get technical do you.

i can't help it if I went to school for exactly this.

*Text based indication of "if I had a webcam I would show you my Certificate with Distinction of Digital Animation from the British Columbia Institute of Technology but since that isn't funny it's a picture of a unicorn" in asterisks*

 

EDIT: Oh my mam I just posed the word Unicorn without thinking of My Little Pony. I'm getting better!

EDIT EDIT: Oh my gog I just edited this post because I thought of that. I'm getting worse!

[Kyon]

Doctor Blue, what do you suggest we do about this situation then.

[Scorpia]

family guy; american animation, full metal alchemist; anime, Inuyasha; anime. 2-1 anime wins!

 

Edit: but then again Blue made me think...i think i like american animation more...it's more aesthetically pleasing to me, sight gags, etc

[Eedo Baba]

The classic disney hand drawn animation. It's long gone now, but when it was alive, it was amazing.

 

Anime is just so badly animated. It's like the people making it are oblivious to basic animation techniques, like the moving hold, or overlapping action.

I've studied the classic animators, the original Disney geniuses. Milt Kahl, Preston Blair. They understood how to using weight and motion perfectly, and brought the animation to a level of brilliance that hasn't been equaled.

 

Watching the classic Disney features as a kid, like me you probably didn't realize the artistry in the animation. But after studying animation techniques, when I watch a scene from Fantasia or The Jungle Book, I'm in awe. These guys were absolute masters, gaining their brilliance over decades of experience.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QphWiC-YRbo

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0I5UepXMA

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kiDDw6Owz0&

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IOls6NGIso

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glq5o-Ds5vU

[Alyxx Thorne]

Or French stuff like Les Triplets de Belville. There more to the western world than Disney.

 

Does puppet animation count? I love the Norwegian one where they race cars.

Pinchcliffe Grand Prix yeah, it's one of my favourites as well.