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Georges Melies was a magician by trade but he was very interested in cinema. When the Lumiere brothers started creating films Melies approached them looking to buy one of their cameras. The lumiere brothers declined because they wanted a monopoly on the cinematographe equipment, so Melies made his own. One day during filming one of Melies cameras stopped working properly and when Melies watched back over the film he saw that things disappeared and moved in the playback of the film. Melies started to take advantage of this discovery and began to make films that contained new techniques that hadn't been used before. His work was very popular however, because many of his films were pirated, he received little financial benefit and ended up in debt. His original films were destroyed however some of his work continues to be available from the pirated recordings that bankrupt him in the first place. New Techniques.  Melies transformed and manipulated reality and was the first to use ...

Tim Lockwood Tim Lockwood is Flint's father in 'Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs'. I picked him because I think he is interesting because he doesn't have any eyes that we can see but the animators are able to show us his emotions purely by his eyebrow movements. Structurally, Tim's face is made up of very simple shapes, His eyebrows are a simple rectangle shape that has been given a hair-like texture design to show they are very bushy. His nose is also a rectangular shape with little realistic design apart from the flat rectangular shape. His mustache is similar to his eyebrows, only a slight curve to show gravity and to make his face seem more realistic. It also doubles as a mouth shape in many ways, similar to how his uni-brow doubles as eyes. The head shape itself is basically a conical shape with curving lines which indicates a chin. Tim Lockwood's personality is quite bland and conventional. Therefore, the shirt he wears is a pale, greyish b...

The Secret Of Kells Directed By: Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey.  Produced By: Paul Young, Didier Brunner, Vivian van Fleteren.  Studio: Cartoon Saloon.  Awards: Academy Award Nomination for Best animated feature film.  Boulder International Film Festival 2010 win.  Zagreb World festival of animated films 2009 won special recognition.   Style and Animation Method: 2D animation using lots of celtic motifs. Very flat, with many scenes looking almost as though they were drawn on a page of a book with everything seeming to be all on one plane. Simplistic, geometric design and patterns such as circles and spirals. In regards to characters, characters drawn using simple geometric shapes also with little realistic features. Colours are vibrant and made to look as if done by watercolour. Lots of shading and use of different shades of colours blended together to manipulate how we see the light and to add to the richness of the colours. Why i...