Tuesday 30 April 2013

Tex Avery

 Frederick Bean "Texas/Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig, Chilly Willy (this last one for the Walter Lantz Studio) into the personas for which they are remembered.he has created the Looney tunes stars.Avery was raised in his native Taylor, and graduated in 1926 from North Dallas High School. A popular catchphrase at his school was "What's up, doc?", which he would later popularize with Bugs Bunny in the 1940s  Avery first began his animation career at the Walter Lantz studio in the early 1930s, working on the majority of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1931-35.he died at the age of 72.he created gold diggers, slap happy lion, dumb hounded red hot riding hood also his all time hit The Looney Tunes 

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Saturday 27 April 2013

Lotte Reiniger

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director.BornJune 2, 1899 and Died: June 19, 1981,she made well known films such as 1922 Sleeping Beauty,1922 Cinderella,1954 Thumbelina and many more through the years.Although all subsequent makers of animated fairy tales could be said to have been influenced by Reiniger, Bruno J.bottge is probably the one who has made the most explicit references to her work.



Betty Boop The Fleischers

Out Of The Inkwell The Fleischers

Noah's Lark The Fleischers

Koko The Clown The Fleischers

The Little Chimney Sweep Lotte Reiniger

cinderella Lotte Reiniger

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed Lotte Reiniger

Hansel and Gretel Lotte Reiniger

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Tuesday 23 April 2013

rotoscope

a rotpscope is an animation tecnique in which animatorstrace over footage, frame by frame
for use in live-action and animated films Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device was eventually replaced by computors.it was invented by Max Fleischer,popaya the sailor is used by rotoscope also snow white, looney tunes and many more