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Animation is afilmmaking technique wherebypictures are generated or manipulated to createmoving images. Intraditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand ontransparent celluloid sheets to bephotographed and exhibited onfilm. Animation has been recognized as an artistic medium, specifically within theentertainment industry. Many animations are either traditional animations orcomputer animations made withcomputer-generated imagery (CGI).Stop motion animation, in particularclaymation, is also prominent alongside these other forms, albeit to a lesser degree.
Animation is contrasted withlive action, although the two do not exist in isolation. Many filmmakers have producedfilms that are a hybrid of the two. As CGI increasinglyapproximates photographic imagery, filmmakers can relatively easilycomposite 3D animatedvisual effects (VFX) into their film, rather than usingpractical effects. (Full article...)
Treasure Planet is a 2002animatedscience fiction film produced byWalt Disney Animation Studios, and released byWalt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. The 43rdanimated feature in theWalt Disney Animated Classics, the film is ascience fiction adaptation ofRobert Louis Stevenson's adventurenovelTreasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular andIMAX theaters. The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2Dtraditional animation set atop 3Dcomputer animation. The film was co-written, co-produced and directed byRon Clements andJohn Musker, who hadpitched the concept for the film at the same time that they pitchedThe Little Mermaid.Treasure Planet features the voices ofJoseph Gordon-Levitt,Brian Murray,David Hyde Pierce,Martin Short,Roscoe Lee Browne,Emma Thompson,Laurie Metcalf, andPatrick McGoohan. The musical score was composed byJames Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed byJohn Rzeznik. The film performed poorly in the United States box office, costing $140 million to create while earning $38 million in the United States and Canada and just shy of $110 million worldwide. It was nominated for the2002Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
 —Joe Murray, Animator, series creator ofRocko's Modern Life, 2011 |
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an Americanfilm producer,director,screenwriter, voice actor,animator,entrepreneur,entertainer, internationalicon and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the20th century. As the co-founder (with his brotherRoy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. Thecorporation he co-founded, now known asThe Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion. Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator inanimation andtheme park design. He and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional characters includingMickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has won 26Academy Awards out of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won sevenEmmy Awards. He is the namesake forDisneyland andWalt Disney World Resort theme parks in theUnited States, as well as the international resorts inJapan,France, andChina.
Walt Disney (1901–66) won or received a total of twenty-sixAcademy Awards, and holds therecord for most Academy Awards in history. He won a total of twenty-two competitive Academy Awards from a total of fifty-nine nominations, and also holds the records for most wins and most nominations for an individual in history. Disney won his first competitive Academy Award and received his firstHonorary Academy Award at the5th Academy Awards (1932). He received the Honorary Academy Award for the creation ofMickey Mouse and won theAcademy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoon) for the filmFlowers and Trees. In the seven Academy Award ceremonies that followed (6th–12th), Disney consecutively earned nominations and won in the same category. Disney received three more Honorary Academy Awards, one in1939 and two in1942. He wasposthumously awarded his final Academy Award in1969.
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