Animations 1980's to Present day

Animation 1980's to the present day

The grim adventures of Billy and Mandy

This show was created by Maxwell Atoms and the first season began airing on Cartoon Network on August 24, 2001 and now has 6 seasons though due to a failed spin-off, it ended by on October 12, 2008 and has a total of 71 episodes excluding specials and movies,  with each episode having a running time of 22 minutes. This TV show has three award wins, three movies, two specials nineteen shorts and even a video game.

The Simpsons
The simpsons is an american animated series that was created for Fox industries by Matt Groening and made its debut on december the 17th 1989 and up to now has broadcast 510 episodes and has started its 24th season on 30th of september and is the longest american animated program ever made.  The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 26 and July 27, 2007, and grossed over $527 million. The Simpsons have won 27 prime time emmy awards, 30 Annie awards and a peabody award.
In 1999 Time magazine voted it the 20th centuries best television series and even has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. 

South Park

South park is an american animation series created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker for the channel Comedy Central. It has a total of 16 seasons and 235 episodes and each episode has a running time of approximately 22 minutes and is very well known for its mature humor and crude language, this may not be that big of a deal for an american sitcom but the catch is it is coming out of four children's mouths who are known for racist and rude talk. This program is  definitely not aimed at small children, it is aimed at middle age teens from 16 and upwards because this age category will get the jokes that the show uses and also for most of the time would not take any offense to the program.

In 2004, Channel 4 voted South Park the third-greatest cartoon of all time. In 2007, Time magazine included the show on its list of the "100 Best TV Shows of All Time", proclaiming it as "America's best source of rapid-fire satire for [the past] decade". The same year, Rolling Stone declared it to be the funniest show on television since its debut 10 years prior.

Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It has a total of 11 seasons and 190 episodes and has a slightly longer running time of 23 minutes. Family guy has been reviewed by critics and they all have said roughly the same thing, 'Nasty but hilariously funny', which it is. Family Guy and its cast have been nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, with four wins. MacFarlane won the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance award for his performance as the baby of the family, Stewie. The original seriese of family guy was in 1999 and finished in 2002, although three years later this was revived on may the 1st, 2005 and is still running and as good as ever on this present day.

    

Sliding Sally

Stop Motion Movie

To create this film we used iStopmotion program and it has 12 frames per second.
Size = 4x3
Exported = DV-Pal

Pixilation is a type of movie which the act of taking several pictures and joining them together to give the effect of things moving as a flowing film. this is often used to make inanimate objects move and seem as they are doing it on there own without any assistance, in this case we made Sally move across the floor, up a table and then have shoes climb up her and then her slide down onto the floor and then it ends.  

Cartoon Animation

Cartoon Animation

Woody Woodpecker

one of the first popular animations to be broadcast on television is Woody Woodpecker who was created in 1940 by Walter Lantz. This was made into short animation films and broadcast by Universal Pictures, They were first broadcast on television on in 1957.

The character of Woody Woodpecker made his first ever appearance in a film called Knock Knock which was produced in 1940 and originally the character of Woody Woodpecker in this film was designed by Alex Lovy and his voice actor was Mel Blanc.

   

Flintstones

The Flintstones was an american animated series which is set in pre historic times and had dinosaurs, wooly mammoths and a town in between them all. This town was originally called Rockville but shortly after changed its name to Bedrock. This series was created and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and along with Woody Woodpecker also included Mel Blanc as a voice actor. 

Scooby Doo

Scooby doo is a animated series which has been produced from 1969 until the present day, the original Scooby Doo series was produced by Hanna Barbera productions and was written by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. 

Scooby Doo was originally broadcast on CBS until 1979 When it moved to ABC which broadcast the show for 7 years and cancelled it in 1986. The original series format was revived and updated for The WB Network's Kids' WB programming block as What's New, Scooby-Doo, which ran from 2002 to 2006.

Introduction

Introduction

Hello my name is Ben Heward and this is my Level 3 Creative Media Productions Blog where i will be showcasing my work.
There are 9 different sectors to the media industry these include

• T.V
• Advertising
• Radio
• Photo Imaging
• Games
• Film
• Interacting Media
• Publishing
• Animation

These all have a very big contribution to put towards the Media industry you use almost everyday without giving a thought to how much work and how many people are involved in the process from ideas to the filming.



These are some examples of populart stop motion animation charecters who have starred in feature length films that have been shown in cinemas all around the globe. These two films between the two of them have made $417,444,936 and were both huge successes everywhere they where shown.