Film update 24/04/15

It's been a while since my last end of year film post and during that time I have managed to get a lot of it done. There is a lot to do, the most important items I need to address are the lip sync, import the stop motion scenes and finish off animation at the end of the film.

Once I have completed the film to an acceptable level and I got some time left to make things better I want to go back over the very first scene and fix the stiff animation on Max.

A look at Cartoon Network

 Before I go back to me posting about my end of year film I want to take  to look over one more animation company, for this post I want to discuss a company which I pretty much grew up on watching day in day out, which is Cartoon Network.

Cartoon Network launched in 1992 with a 8500 hour cartoon library showing cartoons such Looney Tunes, Merrie melodies, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Scooby Doo and much more.

The idea of creating a channel which showed nothing but cartoons for 24 hours was a risky choice but in 1994 it became the 5th most popular cable channel in the United States.
In 1994 Cartoon Network Studio was created and immediately the studio started production on a show called "What a Cartoon!". The show gave animators the opportunity to create animated shorts where they had full control, high budgets and no limitations to the animation. This worked in favour for both the animators and the studio alike, (the animators could be creative and show they ideas and the studio and show them and find out what the audience liked and make more shows like it).

The first short to get it's on series this way was Dexter's Laboratory (a show about a boy genius who's inventions would get destroyed by his sister Dee Dee).

Others show where then soon to follow such as
Johnny Bravo, Cow And Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Powerpuff Girls and more.

In early 2000 Cartoon Network created the channel "Boomerang" which showed shorts from 1980's and earlier. the next year three new series premièred which where Time Squad, Grim & Evil and Samuria Jack (winning many awards).

It was around this time where audience for the shows produced by Cartoon Network wasn't strictly young children but also older audience. Through the years to follows to now, a lot of shows produced by Cartoon Network Studios are aimed at audience of all ages such as Adventure Time, Steven Universe, The Amazing World of Gumball, Over the Garden Wall and more.

A look at Blue Zoo Animation

Blue Zoo Studio is based in heart of London and the company has been around for longer then a decade which during this time has created strong strong relationships with TV broadcasters and media companies worldwide and to name a few would the British Braodcasting Channel. ITV, Cartoon Network and Disney.

The company has won many awards and BAFTA on multiple accounts and is will no doubt win many more. The company has four major areas which are 3D animations, 2D animation, mixed media animation and Motion Graphics.



The company has many different IP's but it's most currently popular show is "Those Scurvy Rascals". The is about about small group of pirate (three in number) which instead of seeking treasurer chests or valuables they want to obtain underpants.



I could go onto discuss the studios other shows (such as Blue Cow which is another popular show) but it would be more beneficial to visit their site which has a good number of videos and posts discussing their work in detail.

http://www.blue-zoo.co.uk/

A look at Sun and Moon Studios

Looking at anouther company which is close to home, Sun and Moon studios (which is based in Bristol) produces two kinds of work which are animations and games.

They company started up in 2008 by Dylan Shipley and Louis Jones and since then has created a large number of high qauilty gaming apllications for children to help educate and entertain the viewing audience.

But the company has also created many animations which ranged from educatinal videos to viewed on mobile devices or web browser to TV adverts and stings.

Sun & Moon Showreel from Sun & Moon Studios on Vimeo.

I was unable to comfirm what software the company uses but it would be my best guess that Illustrator and Flash is they're primary tools but is not limited to that, the company contuinielly growing and is not afriad tto try new ideas and styles and it's because of this why they are well and will cointuine to do well.