The wonders of ANIMATION

Animation is a beautiful part of cinema that covers all the illusions of life, from fairytale's to the real world. It is an interesting type of film making that incorporates camera, frames, projections,screens, laser beams, computers and even artists. Animation has really evolved over time, from free hand drawing of a story board, to computer generated animation.
Animation has evolved from FANTASIA, the 1940 production to SHREK the 2001 production. We can clearly notice the difference in animation and how it has evolved and changed. In 1914 Windso McCay produced the first ever proper animated film for cinema entertainment called Gertie the Dinosaur, and it was a silent black and white film. In the 1920's sound was integrated into silent animations, and in the 1930's colour was added into animation and the feature movie was Snow White.

In 2000 Fantasia was the first full-lenght animation film made by computer to be shown on the huge IMAX cinema screen, and in 2004 Shrek followed as the first technical software movie which allowed characters to naturally bounce from surface to surface. Animation is still evovling, and will continue to surprise us.


Animation brings drawings to life and creates motion within puppets. Computer animation is growing rapidly especially in our technology driven world. Computer graphics allows the producer to create extraordinary animated movies such as Cars a 2006 production. Computer animation is essentially the digital successor to the art of drawing storyboards and frame-by-frame pictures.




Disney's 2007 ENCHANTED, is an excellent animated and part real movie. It incorporates both animation and real figures within one movie. A real fairytale movie, and it begins in the true fairytale setting, the beautiful animated princess surrounded by dozens of cute animals singing ENCHANTED melodies. But not long after, the animated fantasy is gone and live-action pictures begin. Very clearly the first 10minutes of the film evoke feelings of a classic fairytale movie, and then the fairytale ends an live-action begins. We get a happy feeling that fairytale's do come true, even in the furthest of places such as New York. Amy Adams whom plays the peppy and charming Giselle in ENCHANTED, can be reasonably compared to Julie Andrews in the movie MARY POPPINS.



Cinema and especially animation has evolved over time, and now producers and animation artists create a hyper-reality for the consumer to enjoy and be entertained by. A man-made world of fantacy.



BY: NIRVANA DOODLA