Animation

History Of Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images (2-D or 3-D) which have very slight movement in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusuon of motion due to the phenomenon of persistance of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a Motion Picture or video although several other forms of presenting animation also exist.

The founder of animation was Eadweard Muybridge, he used animation to solve many questions from a scientific perspective, such as whether a horse ever took all feet off the ground whilst running. To do this he set up a number of cameras and took pictures of the horse running every meter. Soon after stop motion was created, this is the art of taking thousands or pictures of an object and moving it slightly each time as so when the images are flashed at high sped the object appears to be moving, some of the great stop motion artists are Jan Svankmajer, Nick Park, and Tim Burton. In the 21st Century there are many number of types of animation with digital animation dominating the market with companies such as Pixar.

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Initial Ideas

Idea 1
Animation on top of video. A child (animated silhouette) will ask its mother(video Footage) For a biscuit, the mother will say no and leave the room, the child will turn around and its father will say "here have one, but don't tell your mother" when the child eats the biscuit a few red dot will grow and move around randomly in the silhouette, these will represent that the child has been taught/done something bad.

There will be a cut of a football match with the silhouette child playing, one of the opposing team will fall over and the silhouette child will help him up and make sure hes ok , after this the a few blue dots will grow and move around the randomly with the red dots, these dots represent the good things the child has done.

This will continue for the whole video with the child growing in to an 18 year old where he will be offered drugs, at this point the viewer will get to choose whether the teen picks drugs or to leave.

the drugs outcome will show the silhouette being filled with red dots and the blue dots will slowly fade.

the leave outcome will show the silhouette with a few more blue dots appearing.

the moral will be that we learn good and bad as we grow and that we need a balance between them to grow as individuals but as soon as you start messing with drugs your life will spiral.

Idea 2
I want to make an minute animation that quickly shows the journey of heroin from poppy to druggie, i intend to research how heroin is made and produced.i will use many forms of animation such as stop motion, rotoscope and traditional means as well as some video. I want the animation to be highly fast pace. i would also like to incorporate a shiny needle ball that spins at scene changes, i would like to do this because it makes a hideous thing like incredibly appealing and beautiful.

Developed Idea

My Idea will start with A black dot on a white background(the brief said it has to) which will transform in to a seed which will appear to not be moving but then as the background fades to blue it will clouds will shoot upwards and the seed will pass through it, this will then show that it is a tracing shot of the seed as it plummets down to earth, it will land in a hole (there will be 30 black silhouettes digging holes) and then the camera will zoom in on the seed so as the land above ground is out of the frame. the seed will then grow in to a poppy, the black silhouettes will harvest the seeds, there will then be a switch in which the scene portrayed will become real(ie a top motion piece....TBC

Research

-NOTE- heroin is an illegal substance in the US, Europe and many other countries. Owning, selling, or producing heroin in any form is against the law. The information supplied below is intended to provide a scientific understanding of the biochemical changes involved in transforming opium to heroine.

Heroine is made in several different ways but they all come back to a single base- Morphine. Morphine comes from Opium, the resinous substance found inside the fruit of the opium poppy. Once the opium is harvested, its three main alkaloids (alkaloids are basically a biochemical found in plants) are separated into:

1. Morphine
   
2. Codeine
3. Thebaine.
   

Morphine and Codeine are the only two alkaloids which can be converted into Heroin.

Thebaine is the base for bupenephrine which is a very strong narcotic pharmacologically and is mostly used in the treatment of opiate/opiod addiction.

While Codeine cannot be directly converted into heroin it can be converted into morphine sulfate. These sulfates are then removed making a morphine freebase and then converted into heroin. The actual conversion process of morphine to heroine is not for amateurs and must only be conducted in a laboratory setting.

Converting codeine to heroin does not need to be done in a "lab" and is easily done using basic kitchen implements with a few supermarket items. Whilst never trying this , from my research i have discovered You will need a test tube, preferably a medium sized beaker but jar will do. Pyridine, preferably analytical grade, and acetyl anhydride. The Process takes a couple of hours. Requires no real understanding of chemistry and is relatively easy to do. If you can locate chloroform and chemicals i.e 10 mls pyridine, 15 mls acetyl anhydride and 100 mls chloroform then heroin can be made cheaply and easily from most over the counter painkillers that contain codeine.

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