Researching for my small animated film with the help of graphs.

 For my research I decided to visit a website called Visme to start creating a graph. This graph will include the stages of the production in this kind of projects. It is important to follow this 5 steps for any type of project you are working at the time.  It was a great opportunity to explore a website that I have never work on before and use the free tools that it gave me the chance to use. I had a lot of fun trying to find pictures and animations to use on my graphs to make them look more professional.

You can see the graph and more information here:Graph

This are the five stages that any creator has to make in order to achieve a good result on the creation of a small animated type video. For the first step of my research I started searching various studios that have been producing this kind of content. Lets take a small trip to a long time ago, to be more specific, to the times were Walt Disney was designing a small mouse that would change the world!

Sources of the images:New York Times

Walt Disney on New York Times

This images was one of the first appearances of the legendary Mickey Mouse. Back in the day cartoons were made by drawing the characters and the background for every single frame and then changing the pose of the character in each frame by a little. After running all the drawings together really fast it gave the viewer the illusion that the character is moving and interacting with the environment around him. Today we create this type of content using various programs but the basic idea of drawing the characters is the fundamental principle behind every single animated movie and shorts. Mickey Mouse was also a masterpiece of character design at the time. He was designed to appeal to its target audience which was children. A cute little mouse running around having adventures was something really interesting and entertaining, specially with its young audience. 

Walt Disney was a visionary when it came to animated characters and animated shorts. Although he was great with drawing and making animated shorts, he was not a very good businessman. It was known that Walt Disney drove his company to the ground multiple times. But the company was saved from one distributor in New York who published one of his short.

Now lets change our destination and visit another great distributor that rivals Walt Disney to its character animations, Warner Brothers and the Looney Toons.

Looney Toons

These early Looney Toons drawings show various characters that would worth millions in the future. Warner Brothers being a very established company at the time created the Looney Toons and took the world by storm.They are one of the best cartoon creators of all time having under there name big stars like Bugs Bunny, Duffy Duck, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzales and many more.

Reflection:By researching this two companies I realised why they were so big at there time and until today why they still amaze the world. They are doing every stage of an animated film creation with passion and excitement. From their brainstorming to the design of each character, the mechanics and movement and even the advertisement and distribution of their product. It is very helpful for independent artist to take notes from big companies like these.