Futurama

In this episode they go through a variety of animations, starting with a Steam Boat Willy animation, which shows how they know their history of animation, then they go into later animation such as Pokemon and Wreck it Ralph. They end it on a more modern take to animation by doing a type of anime, examples of this is like Yu-Gi-Oh.

The Simpsons

In this episode Burns is riding Gerty the dinosaur which was the first ever animation made in the 1960's, this shows that the animators know of the history of drawn animation and use intertexuality to refrence the history of animation into their drawn animation.

Drawn Animation || Flight of Dragons

What I did for my drawn animation?

I drew the character called Phineas whos famously known as the character from the kid series "Phineas & Ferb". I started of by finding sketches and pictures of the character and drew free hand the character onto a blank page. I then drew him over 10 times in different positions, for example:  Standing, leg lifting, walking forward. This took repeptition as I was tracing back from my first character picture then changing him slightly to make a minimum amount of change within both pictures. I then started on the environment/background, this took some imagination to come up with a design. But when I got a creation I started to draw.

Once making both the character movement and the background I turned to how I was going to get this pictures onto the computer to be editted through Photoshop CS6, I decided to go with the scanning machine as it comes with great detail when transferring the sketch and does not have un-equal shading. After getting the pictures into CS6 I started on the colour scheme and ptching all the rough terrain on the background.

I then put all the character images in a sequence and when played at a certain seped the character is shown as moving which animates the model.

Overall I think I could have done the character models movement a lot better and concentrated on the detail of the movement and motion of the character.

Flight of Dragons
This animation was very important when it came out as it was shown as quite a well educated and intelligent programme, although it was made for children it had a sense of adult like narrative to the animation which was done to explain how chidlren are intelligent and well educated to understand narrative to that extent.