Cel Animation

Short for celluloid, is when a transparent sheet is used to draw upon, which is then layered with others to create a single frame. This was a very important innovation as it allowed parts of the frame to be repeated frame to frame without having to redraw it.

This meant that the background could remain still without giving a "jittery" appearance. In early very early animations before the use of cel, such as Gertie The Dinosaur, which was released in 1914 by Winson McCay, the entire frame, including the background, were drawn on sheets of paper and then photographed, so everything had to be redrawn for each frame containing movement.
This method was used for a very long time and in major film productions such as Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.



Snow White - It was produced by Walt Disney and released in 1937. It was revolutionary at the time and was the first all colour full feature length animation.

Tom and Jerry

The Simpsons

Time Lapse

Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know uses elements of time lapse through the music video.

It was first released in July 2011, and received a lot of publicity due to its uniqueness.

This is a Cut Out Animation I made as an introduction to this kind of animation. I used cut outs from newspapers and magazines and a few random objects to create this. I used a USB camera and faced it down onto the table where I moved the cut outs slightly after every frame taken.

South Park

The early episodes of South Park were all made using cut out animation. South Park was first aired in August 1997 and was created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. It's based around 4 kids in South Park and follows their adventures.

This is a model based stop motion animation by PES. It features different games and their game over animations. It was originally released in 2008.

This is a clay model stop motion animation made by Lee Hardcastle. It's a parody of Frozen and features the main characters.

This was released on YouTube in Februray 2015

Pixilation