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On each page, draw your character in pencil, tracing the outline of each previous drawing and subtly changing the character's position.

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Now flip through the notebook and see your character move.

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Weird movie crewmember names

Gaffer

Often credited as chief lighting technician, this position involves preparing, and sometimes designing, the lighting plan.

Grip

Responsible for maintaining and positioning equipment in a scene.

Doiły grip

This person positions the doiły, which is a smali truck that runs on tracks carrying a camera, the camera operator, and sometimes the director.

Best boy

The assistant to a gaffer or grip and ensures the efficient daily running on set.

Body double

Some of the responsibilities of a body double include replacing actors in scenes involving nudity, or physically demanding stunts.

Clapper loader

Loads raw film stock into a camera magazine and operates the clapperboard.

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U Thump watermelons or punch a telephone book.

III Bones breaking:

U Twist a head of celery or lettuce in two, with crackers glued on.

III Bird flapping wings:

U Flap a pair of gloves.

I* Spaceship sliding U door: Puli a piece of paper from an envelope.

III Throwing up: Take a U bottle of mayonnaise and a bottle of water.

First shake out a blob of mayonnaise into a bowl and then pour a splash of water.

I* Fire crackling: Slowly (I press down on a packet of crisps with your hand.

m Sąuelching of alien U innards: Place a microphone close to your mouth. Open your mouth slowly and let your tongue slackly “drip” from the roof of your mouth to create a gross noise.

Three types of animation

Animation is an optical illusion in which you see a rapid sequence of images as movement. There are three main animation technigues used for making movies.

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Computer animation

A variety of digital techniques using a Computer can create a movies’s scene and characters. Movies such as Up, IceAge {abo^e), and Toy Story were created in this way, also known as computer-generated imagery (CGI).

Traditional animation

A series of drawn images, called cels, are photographed one by one and then put together in the same way as a flip book. Movies such as Pinocchio, JungleBook, and The Simpsons use this process.

Stop-motion

Clay models or puppets are manipulated and photographed frame by frame. This technique was used to make movies such as Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit(abo\ie), and to bring the dinosaurs to life in the Jurassic Park movies.

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