One Day Project – Background Research
In researching different types of animation, instead of creating a list for different types of audience in age, I decided to create a list that was categorized into their purpose and content. Of course, with any categorizing, some of the animations overlap into other categories.
To Entertain and Storytell
- Disney Productions: The Lion King, Aladdin, Robin Hood – Hand drawn and painted animation.
- Pixar Productions: Toy Story, Up, A Bugs Life, Wall E – Computer animation.
- Harman Productions: Wallace And Gromit, Chicken Run – Stop Animation with plasticine.
To cause Discussion, show Ideas
- David Firth: Flash animations based on his dreams and ideas of society.
- Pixar Productions: Wall E – American dominancy, Consumerism, Pollution.
- Waltz With Bashmir – Animated Documentary showing the horrors of 1982 Lebanon war.
To represent and show Culture
- Studio Ghibli: Japanese settings and locations, lifestyles of eastern society, follows myths.
- Dreamworks Productions: Shrek – Pop Culture references, fantasy idea incoporated into a modern setting/style.
- Family Guy, Simpsons, South Park, American Dad: western civilisation. Pop culture references. Celebrity cameos.
To Educate and Inform:
- Disney Productions: The Disney Channel – Use characters to teach young children how to spell, count, etc
- Nickolodeon: Dora The Explorer and Run, Diego, Run – teach children participation and interactivity with whats on screen etc.
After analysing some of these animations, I then decided to create a storytelling concept for my project, but include various interactive sections to keep the viewer involved and to cause them to feel like a part of what is happening in the story. I next needed to come up with a conceptual story for my animation.
