early animation studios
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- Who are the major early animation studios?
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Bray Studios, Raoul Barre with Charles Bowers, International Film Service, Max Fleischer, Pat Sullivan/Otto Messmer, Disney
- Who is John Randolph Bray?What is his main perspective or focus?
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Cartoonist for Detroit Evening News, profit oriented, wanted to simplify animation process, Bray Studios
- Who is Earl Hurd – what technological development is Hurd responsible for?
- Still backgrounds drawn on paper, Characters painted on celluloid
- Earl Hurd created the series Bobby Bumps. What is credited to Hanna-Barbera during the period of television that began with Bobby Bumps?
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Betty Boop
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What did Paul Terry produce under Bray Studios? What did he make when he was on his own? What was the name of his studio? What was his main focus or perspective?
- farmer alfafa, mighty mouse, terrytoons,
- Tell me everything you know about Raoul Barre. What did he develop? What pieces illustrate these techniques?
- New system for registration, New system of cell animation called cut and slash method of animation, Created moving backgrounds,
- What innovation did Max Fleischer develop under Bray Studio?What is the equivalent innovation in 3D/CGI? He left Bray to start his own studio based on what character? What is his brother’s name? What role did his brother primarily play in the
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rotoscoping, motion cap, KoKo,
- Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer created the most famous animated silent character. Who was it? Why was he different. Name 3 characteristics of this character. What was the demise of this character?
- felix, emphasis on personality,didn't transition over to sound with steamboat willie
- Where did Walt Disney start his company? What initial pieces did he produce?
- kansas, oswald the rabbit
- Why did Walt lose Oswald the Rabbit – who did he lose him to?
- budget cut,
- What was Disney originally going to call Mickey?
- Mortimer
- Disney was going to release Mickey sooner but waited for what development?
- sound
- What feature film influenced Disney?
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jazz singer
- How was Disney different from the other studios of this time?
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story movement and personality
- How would you describe the working conditions in the early animation studios?
- poor, long hours,
- What are the steps on the an animation assembly line?
- storyboard, keyframe, tween, cleanup cell,
- What did the artists of the time really want in a producer?
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signs blank checks and leaves them alone