Animation Techniques
Famous Animators
Animated Characters
Animated Films
East VS West Animation
100
These are the images or drawings that make up animations.
What are Frames?
100
This well known animator was responsible for giving us such characters as Mickey Mouse, Bambi, and Snow White.
Who is Walt Disney?
100
This Famous Animated Character appeared in a Disney film from 1940
Who is Jiminy Cricket?
100
This 3D animated film used a brand new software in order to simulate the look and feel of building with Legos.
What is The Lego Movie?
100
This animation style generally uses 24 frames per second, prioritizing fluidity and movement.
What is Western-Styled Animation?
200
This Animation Technique involves flipping back and forth multiple drawings, in order to create the illusion of movement
What is Flip-Book Styled Animation?
200
This Famous Animator has worked for almost every animation studio in existence, some of his notable work includes Kung Fu Panda, Spirit, and Adventure Time.
Who is James Baxter?
200
This stop-motion hero starred in a famous Henry Selick film that has become a cult classic to children everywhere.
Who is Coraline?
200
This 2D/3D Hybrid Animated film features stunning leaps and daring feats, by the titular character Spiderman.
What is Spiderman Into the Spiderverse?
200
This animation style generally uses 8-12 frames per second, prioritizing saving time for more thoroughly animated action-sequences.
What is Eastern-styled Animation?
300
This Rotating Cylindrical device was one of the first forms of early animation in the 1900's.
What is a Zoetrope?
300
This Famous animator is considered the Grandfather of Animation, who's famous works include Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and The Raggedy Anne and Andy Movie.
Who is Richard Williams?
300
This Motion-Captured Alien Character, is portrayed by Zoe Saldaña in this famous James Cameron Film Franchise.
Who is Neytiri?
300
This Stop-motion animated film based on a book, features a cunning fox who outsmarts 3 farmers with his sneaky antics.
What is Fantastic Mr. Fox?
300
This Virtual band from the UK portrays themselves as 4 animated characters, and have used several types of animation techniques in their music videos.
Who are the Gorillaz?
400
This Animation technique involves placing a real person in a one-piece suit with specialized wires, then digitally importing their movements into data for 3D animation.
What is Motion-Capture Animation?
400
This Stop-Motion Focused Studio boasts a long list of Classic Christmas Tales such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
Who/What is RankinBass Studios?
400
This Famous character was Walt Disney's first break-out animated star.
Who is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?
400
This famous Japanese film features the infamous "Bike Slide" sequence, that has been mimic'd by several animated movies/shows out of respect and admiration for this film.
What is Akira?
400
This famous Japanese animator is known as the "Grandfather of Anime" who's work includes Astroboy, and Kimba the White Lion.
Who is Tezuka? (Osamu Tezuka)
500
This Animation Technique involves capturing a real person or animal's movement, and tracing it in order to form life-like animation sequences.
What is Rotoscoping / Rotoscoped Animation?
500
This Famous Animator primarily used modeling clay in order to bring his creatures to life. He is well known for creating the California Raisins.
Who is Will Vinton?
500
These two animated characters were apart of Richard William's Animation Masterpiece that-never-was
Who are the Thief and the Cobbler?
500
This dark animated film based on a novel, was famous for its heavy use of Rotoscoped animation for several scenes.
What is (Ralph Bakshi's) The Lord of the Rings?
500
This 1968 film features an extremely popular UK band, while the film lacks a cohesive plot, it makes up for it using the band's music, characters, and surrealistic animation sequences.
What is Yellow Submarine?