History of Animation- Exam 3 Vocab/Knowledge (1957-2019)

Shanghai Animation founded

Shanghai Animation founded

• 1957

• Wan bros:

  • Laiming

  • Guchan

  • Dihuan

  • Chaochen

“Where is Mama?”

• This is that super sweet watercolor film about tadpoles tryna find their mom'

• Te Wei

• 1960

• Shanghai Animation studio

Zagreb Film

• 1953

• Yugoslavia (today Croatia)

The Surrogate/Ersatz

• This is that geometric film abt that guy going to the beach and inflating everything

• Dušan Vukotić

• 1961

• Zagreb Film Studios

• Yugoslavia

• Oscar winner 1962

Zagreb Film

• late 1950s-1980s

• Made as a studio interested in modern art

  • started as like a fun thing on the side

• No real studio in Yugoslavia at the time

• Many employees from satire magazine

• Mostly self-taught

• Studied UPA films

• Yugoslavian gov’t funded the arts

  • Like the Chinese gov’t

  • but even MORE

Osamu Tezuka

• Astro Boy

• Mushi Production

Astro Boy

• 1963

• Japan

• Mushi Productions

The Hand

• Jiri Trnka

• 1965

• Czechoslovakia

• Kratky Film Studio, Prague

Havoc in Heaven

• 1961/64

• Sequel to Princess Iron Fan

• Wan bros back at it again

  • Laiming

  • Guchan

  • Chaochen

  • Dihuan

• Production stopped in 1941

Jiri Trnka

• Master of Czech puppet animation

• Last work banned by gov’t for 17 years

George Dunning

• The Yellow Submarine

• 1968

• UK

The Yellow Submarine

• 1968

• George Dunning

• Heinz Edelmann; production design

• Alison De Vere; BG design

• Paul Dreisseau, storyboards + others

• Al Brodax; producer

Film, Film, Film

• Fedor Khitruk

• 1968, Russia

• Soyuzmultfilm Studio

Fantasia

• 1969

• Disney

Hunger

• 1974

• Canada

• Peter Foldes (animator)

• Nestor Burtnyk (computer programmer)

Alison de Vere

• Cafe Bar (1974, UK)

• Wyatt-Cattaneo Studio

Cafe Bar

1974, UK

• Alison de Vere

• Wyatt-Cataneo Studio

Sisyphus

• 1974

• Marcell Jankovics

• Hungary

Quasi at the Quackadero

• 1975

• USA

• Sally Cruikshank

Sally Cruikshank

• cult following

• Quasi at the Quackadero

• also worked on

  • Sesame Street

  • 1980 Twilight Zone feature

National Film Board of Canada

• Norman McLaren’s disciples

• McLaren presided over the board from ~1940s

The Street

Caroline Leaf

• 1976

• Canada

• Oscar nomination

• oil paint

Samba the Great

• Moustapha Allasane; self-taught animator, was a mechanic

• 1977

• Niger

Caroline Leaf

• The Street (1976)

• also known for Two Sisters

Yuri Norstein

• Hedgehog in the Fog/Mist (1975, Russia)

• Tale of Tales (1979, Russia)

• worked w/ multi-plane like Reiniger

Hedgehog in the Fog/Mist

• Yuri Norstein

• 1975, Russia

• Character illustration: by his wife, Francesca Yarbusova

• Soyuzmultfilm Studio

CGI character animation

1984-1996

Tale of Tales

• film abt the cute lil wolf

• 1979

• Russia

• Character illustration: by wife Francesca Yorbusova

• Script: Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

• Opens w/ a lullaby

• soundtrack features famous tango

Tango

• this is that super cool film w/ all the ppl coming into and leaving the room

• Made w/ machine called OPTICAL PRINTER

• Zbigniew Rybczyński

• Poland

• 1980

• Se-Ma-For studio

• Oscar for best animated short, 1981

Studio Ghibli was founded what year

• 1985

• Tokyo

Studio Ghibli founders

• Miyazaki Hayao

• Takahata Isao

• Suzuki Toshio

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

• 1986, Japan

• Miyazaki’s first feature at Studio Ghibli

Spirited Away

• 2001

• by Studio Ghibli

CGI character animation born

• roughly 1984-86

Adventures of Andre and Wally B.

• 1984-85

• USA

• Ed Catmull

• John Lasseter

Year Steve Jobs incorporates Pixar

1986

Luxo Jr.

• 1986

• cute lil lamp and big lamp

• USA

• John Lasseter

Dimensions of Dialogue

• Jan Svankmajer

• Czechoslovakia

• Kratky Film

• 1982

Girls’ Night Out

• Joanna Quinn

• 1987

• UK

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

• Live action bit- Robert Zemeckis

• Animation bit- Richard Williams

• 1988

• UK, USA

• revitalized animation in public eye as “real” filmmaking

Creature Comforts

• Nick Park

• 1989

• UK

• Aardman Studio (Wallace and Gromit)

• won best short animation 1990

Words, Words, Words

• Michaela Pavlatova

• 1992

• Czech Republic

• Kratky Film Studio

Bebe’s Kids

• Bruce W. Smith

• 1992

• USA/France/Taiwan

• Hyperion Studio (Paramount release)

• Og idea from comedian Robin Harris

Toy Story

• 1995

• first CGI feature

• John Lasseter

• USA

• during Disney “renaissance”

Disney “renaissance”

• 1988-1999

• Michael Eisner (chair CEO)

• Frank Wells (prez, CEO)

• Jeffery Katzenberg, chair

• Roy E. Disney, vice chair

Ryan

• Chris Landreth

• Canada

• 2000

• Oscar, Best Animated short

Oktapodi

• By grad students of ecole les Gobelins

• France

• 2007

• Oscar nomination 2008

The Pearce Sisters

• Luis Cook

• UK

• 2008

• Aardman Studio

The Centrifuge Brain Project

• Till Nowak

• 2011

• Germany

Hair Love

• Matthew A. Cherry

• Everett Downing Jr,

• Bruce W. Smith

• AnimStudio: Lion Forge Animation, LA

• 2019

• Oscar, Best Animated Short, 2020

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

• Peter Ramsey

• Bolo Persichetti

• Rodney Rotham

• USA/Canada

• 2018

• Chris Miller

• Phil Lord

Bao

• Domee Shi

• 2018

• nominated for short Oscar 2018

• Also made Turning Red

  • Oscar 2023, best animated feature

Waking Sleeping Beauty

• Don Hahn

• 2010

• USA