STUDIO BRIEF 3 – ANIMATE

The next thing which I looked at was Gertie the Dinosaur which was created by Winsor McCay in 1914. Each image was hand drawn and then film, the same way in which J Stuart Blackton created his animation. Although the animation is very rough, sketchy and looks old, it is still a brilliant example of how far animation has come in such a short amount of time, and also the fact that he hand drew it and put it together in this way is remarkable as there is a lot of details to it. The general idea of the animation is that the dinosaur will do what the man is saying, but there is a slightly mischievousness to the way in which she does it; which is what makes the animation so successful.