Animation 1970's - Present

Since the 1980's animation has developed, mainly changing its target audience to an old age group from young children. Mainly people describe some of these animation as being very childish or juvenile. People also describe most of them as being quite annoying.

Matt Goening

Matt Goening is the creator of the Simpsons and Futurama. The Simpsons is about a middle class family in America and about their life and about all of the crazy things that happen. There are some adult/mature themes in the Simpsons, but not very often. It has quite a lot of adult humour though, and it is one of the most popular animations ever created as well as the longest running one.

Billy and Mandy

Billy and Mandy is another American animation aired by cartoon network. Its is about two children named Billy and Mandy and their friend Grim, who is meant to be the grimm reaper. Many people say that the genres of Billy and Mandy are 'Black comedy, Comedy horror, Satire, Farce and Toilet Humor'. Billy and Mandy is also quite gross and sick, this is because of the themes that are in this animations show.

Seth MacFarlane 

Seth MacFarlane is a very popular modern animator. He is known for the shows Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. Each of these shows do have quite a lot of adult humor. Some people enjoy all of these shows, but other people find some of them quite stupid and even a bit repetitive and similar to the other shows. These animations are aimed for an older audience, because there are a lot more mature themes throughout each of these shows, and show things that only an older audience with understand and get the joke to. The genres of Family Guy are Cutaway gag humor, black comedy, off-colour humor and also surreal humor.

Sponge Bob Square Pants

Sponge Bob Square Pants is aimed at a younger audience to the others, but it does still have some mature content, things that 7 years olds would not understand, but a parent watching would find slightly funny or amusing. Although Spong Bob is popular with a wide range of people, some people do find it very annoying and stupid, because of the juvenile humor. Sponge Bob was created by a man called Stephen Hillenburg, and is a very popular show in Nickelodeon, and the a main genre of it is slapstick comedy. That is probably why some people find it very annoying and childish, but it is still loved by many people of all ages. 

Pixilation - Mad Animation

Pixilation

Pixilation is a type of stop motion animation that used people instead of inanimate objects. To make this pixilation we used iStop Motion. The size of the video was 4:3 and the frame rate was 12 images per second. The length of our film was only 9 seconds, but it means we took about 109 images to make this short clip.
Sally started by laying on the floor, then after every picture that we took, she moved slightly into a different position. By doing this made it look like she was sliding across the floor, up the table then back down, and then walked on by shoes. To finish with her laying back on the floor.

Animations 1950's - 1970's

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.' first animated theatrical series. The series features some of the most well-known and popular cartoon characters in history, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Tweety Bird. Many of the characters have made cameo appearances in television shows, films and advertisements. Also all of the characters had the same man doing all of the voice overs, and he was called Mel Blanc.

Hanna Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation for nearly three decades in the mid-to-late 20th century. The company was originally formed in 1957 by former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and live-action director George Sidney in partnership with Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems television division

Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programs. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s.

Magic Roundabout

The magic roundabout was originally a french children's television program that was created in 1963 by Serge Danot. The BBC produced a version of the series using the original stop motion animation footage with new English-language scripts, written and performed by Eric Thompson, that had no relation to the original storylines. This version, broadcast from 18 October 1965 to 25 January 1977, was a great success and attained cult status, being watched by adults for its dry humour as much as by the children for whom it was intended.

Animation 1930's - 1949's

Norman McLaren 

Norman McLaren,  (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada.







Norman was the first animator to create animations using people instead of figures.






Art Clokey


  Arthur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia.








Fleischer Brothers

Fleischer Studios, Inc. is an American corporation which originated as a New York animation studio. It was founded in 1921 by brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, who ran the company from its inception until they were fired by parent company and distributor Paramount Pictures in April 1942. 

The two most famous animation from the Fleischer Brothers were Betty Boop and PopEye.

Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (born June 29, 1920) is an American visual effects creator, writer and producer. He created a brand of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation."

Among his most notable works are his animation on Mighty Joe Young (with pioneer Willis O'Brien, which won the Academy Award for special effects) (1949), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (his first color film) and Jason and the Argonauts, featuring a famous sword fight against seven skeleton warriors.