John Lasseter and Walt Disney

John Lasseter 

Post Digital

John Lasseter is an America animator and film director, who is the chief creative officer of pixar animation studio, Walt Disney and he is also known as the principal creative advisor for Walt Disney imagineering.  He is also known for creating the first fully computer generated animation called Toy story. In 1984 he worked on the adventures of the technique called motion blur and the personality of the animation effects.

He has won two Academy Awards Animation short film for tin toy as it was the first computer animation short to win an academy used those traditional techniques such as moving the camera the way live action film makes do.

In 1986 the graphics group of the computer Division of Lucas film was sold to Steve jobs and became pixar in 1986.

 In my opinion this animation was looking realistic spacial the sound effect because it goes with the scene however the baby was looking more plastic and not quite like it sat in the ground properly. The fabrics look plastic too and but given this was one of the first attempts at this type of animation i think it is good.



https://youtu.be/b2ptYzLfJ5g

Screen Shot from Tin Toy

Furniss, M. The Animation Bible, London, (2008)

Walt Disney (pre-digital)

Most people know the name of Walt Disney and they think of him when most often when talking about animation. He has had probably the biggest influence on animation and cartooning ever. He began work in the 1920s with his brother and friends producing animations for cinema advertising. But it wasn't long before his talents turned to more ambitious projects after setting up a company called Laugh-o-Grams. Some of the work included blending real characters with cartoons, something which most people seem to think as quite a more recent innovation. Working on several popular animated characters, the one that really took the imagination of the world by storm was Mickey Mouse.

Although not the first of Mickey's outings, Steamboat Willie (1928)  introduced the world of cartoons to synchronized sound. Disney was also the first to use the three-strip colour method for his animations; the first was Flowers and Trees in 1932. Then in 1937 the first full colour animated feature film was released called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Still today the Disney studios are still influential having joined with Pixar in 2006. The company won the Oscar for the short Paper Man in 2013 where traditional animation methods were combined with digital.