Animation and Live Action Movies

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Animation and Live Action Movies: An investigation into their co-operative strengths and weaknesses On this essay I will be covering a comparison between live action films and animation – both entertaining things but both of them have their advantages and disadvantages. I will try to point out some of the things and have an understanding about these two things, what’s their relationship. First of all here are some facts about animation and live action films. First animation was produced in 1906 called “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” by J. Stuart Blackton. It was a very simple animation where only few part of a character was moving but it had one of the main things at that time - interacting with its creator. And later on in 1976 the first 3D CGI head was used in a film “Futureworld” (1) and I will be looking into CGI more than traditional animation. Whereas films developed over 1890s and in 1902 first science fiction film was produced by French director George Melies “A Trip to the Moon”. It also had animation in it. From then on until today the quality of various animation techniques for live action films were dramatically increasing. So animation and live action films worked hand in hand from their days when they were created. Let’s take a closer look at how animation and live action films cooperate today. What challenges they have to take in order to have an appealing look. We can take as an example “Transformers” Live Action film (2007) (2) and compare it to “The Transformers: The Movie” (1986) 2D animation (3). 2D Animation is easier and cheaper to produce but it won’t earn as much money as live action films. Here it’s the same case: “The Transformers: The Movie” haven’t earned nearly as much as “Transformers” live action film. Animation in 1986 earned 6 million $ in the box office (which in 2007 is equivalent to 10million to 18.9 million $ (4)) and Live

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