Animations

There are so many different styles of animation, and over the years they have gotten more and more realistic or/and smoother. From looking at these range of videos I have come to terms that I won't be able to get any better (quality wise) than the old version of The Simpsons as I am limited on time, skill and programmes.




Both Roobarb and Custard and Mr Messy have a similar quality in it being hand drawn and simple. However, they still have different styles of animating: Roobarb and Custard is shaky and never still, where's with the Mr Men cartoons are usually static but would have the mouths move when talking.



Wallace and Gromit is a stop-motion animation and would take a lot of time and carefulness in adjusting each frame. I was particularly impressed with the cogs in the background not failing once.
The more frames it has, the smoother it is



From watching the two Simpsons openings side by side you can really see the improvement of the quality over the years. The characters and setting are much more defined now and won't keep changing shape. Also how the characters have developed with the time: The twins playing on their phones and the Simpson family playing on their Wii.



South Park to begin with didn't have much money so to animate they just used craft paper to move the characters. This means it was kept very simple and very 2 dimensional. This became their style, so when they were able to use computers to animate they made sure they kept to the same quality of stiffness, but changed the quality of image: colour and definition.



Even games have became better with their animation. It is constantly improving and becoming more and more life like over the years. I also find moments in this video where I question if it's all CGI or not. They even managed to get the fine detail in the fabric.