ANIMATION AND FILM INDUSTRY
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The Digital Medium Has an Important Contribution to Cinema's Artistic and Entertainment Values
For more than 100 years since its birth, the movie industry has evolved much as an art form and a creative industry. Since then, it has provided major contributions in the arts, culture, politics and technology. And whether it's in Hollywood, Bollywood or any other film industry center in the world, each one continues to develop better technologies to keep up with the rising demand for valuable and entertaining content. And this is where computer animation gets incorporated in the film's special effects, which serves as a powerful tool to tell impressive stories in the film medium. Instead of the traditional way of drawing each movement frame by frame (24 hand-drawn frames with incremental changes in each drawing's movement for a one second motion), the digital process allows for less drawings and utilizing computer software to enhance each image of the moving picture.
A Brief History of Computer Animation
Computer animation started way back in the 80's with Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan using computer techniques to generate the Genesis Effect scene. Jurassic Park also used computer-generated images for realistic living creatures in the film. The '90s saw the significant impact of computer animation with Toy Story, the first full digital animated feature that became a box office success and garnered many technical awards in top award-giving bodies such as The Academy Awards. Babe, a combination of live and computer animated effects, became a huge hit as well. This animation timeline continues in the new millennium with Shrek, The Lord of the Rings and many more.
Animation and Special Effects
Going beyond the realistic world allows the viewers to escape from their own lives towards an out-of-this-world and hyper-realistic experience in audio-visual form. There are even some cinematic works mainly
The Digital Medium Has an Important Contribution to Cinema's Artistic and Entertainment Values
For more than 100 years since its birth, the movie industry has evolved much as an art form and a creative industry. Since then, it has provided major contributions in the arts, culture, politics and technology. And whether it's in Hollywood, Bollywood or any other film industry center in the world, each one continues to develop better technologies to keep up with the rising demand for valuable and entertaining content. And this is where computer animation gets incorporated in the film's special effects, which serves as a powerful tool to tell impressive stories in the film medium. Instead of the traditional way of drawing each movement frame by frame (24 hand-drawn frames with incremental changes in each drawing's movement for a one second motion), the digital process allows for less drawings and utilizing computer software to enhance each image of the moving picture.
A Brief History of Computer Animation
Computer animation started way back in the 80's with Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan using computer techniques to generate the Genesis Effect scene. Jurassic Park also used computer-generated images for realistic living creatures in the film. The '90s saw the significant impact of computer animation with Toy Story, the first full digital animated feature that became a box office success and garnered many technical awards in top award-giving bodies such as The Academy Awards. Babe, a combination of live and computer animated effects, became a huge hit as well. This animation timeline continues in the new millennium with Shrek, The Lord of the Rings and many more.
Animation and Special Effects
Going beyond the realistic world allows the viewers to escape from their own lives towards an out-of-this-world and hyper-realistic experience in audio-visual form. There are even some cinematic works mainly