Animation Products Research

Film 

Toy Story

Year of Release - 1995
Company made by - Produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures
Directed by - John Lasseter
Animation style - Computer animated
Target Audience - The target audience is both male and female. It is mainly targeted to young children in primary school years however people of our age 16+ attract to it as we'd have grown up with the film.
Purpose of Animation - To entertain young children
What I like - I like how their is not much realism to it but that makes it entertaining.



Short

Luxo Jr

Year of Release - 1986
Company made by - Pixar
Directed by - John Lasseter
Animation style - Computer Animated
Target Audience - More likely to be young children as they would find it amusing
Purpose of Animation - Something to entertain and represent the Pixar logo
What I like - I find it quite cute and it's a bit out of the ordinary and simple yet very effective.



TV Series

The Simpsons

Year of Release - 1989
Company made by - Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television, Klasky Csupo, Film Roman
Directed by - Neil Affleck, Bob Anderson, Mike B. Anderson, Wes Archer, Carlos Baeza, Brad Bird, Kent Butterworth, Shaun Cashman, Chris Clements, Susie Dietter, Mark Ervin, Matthew Faughnan, David Silverman, Milton Gray, Klay Hall, Jen Kamerman, Mark Kirkland, Lance Kramer, Nancy Kruse, Jeffrey Lynch, Lauren MacMullan, Michael Marcantel, Pete Michels, Rich Moore, Steven Dean Moore, Matthew Nastuk, Rob Oliver, Raymond S. Persi, Dominic Polcino, Michael Polcino, Jim Reardon, Swinton O Scott, Chuck Sheetz, Ralph Sosa, Alan Smart, Gregg Vanzo.
Animation style - Still Animation by hand
Target Audience - Teenagers and adults because they can often relate to the ages of the family
Purpose of Animation - To entertain the audience
What I like - I like how stereotypical it is and that it is funny/entertaining

Music Video

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc

Year of Release - 2005
Company made by - Virgin Records
Directed by - Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland
Animation style - Computer generated imagery with two dimensional animation
Target Audience - All ages depending on your music style
Purpose of Animation - To fit with their unique style as all their videos and characters are animated
What I like - How unique it is and that it fits well with its genre.



Advert

John Lewis - The Bear & The Hare

Year of Release - 2013
Company made by - Adam & Eve/DDB
Directed by - Elliot Dear
Animation style - Hand Drawn 2D animation with 3D Sets
Target Audience - All ages probably more aimed at young children
Purpose of Animation - Promote John Lewis for the Christmas season
What I like - The choice in animation that was used, this is because it's something adult viewers will possibly remember from when they were younger and as well it is enjoyable for young viewers because it was always aimed at children.




Web Series

Salad Fingers

Year of Release - 2004 (Didn't make internet popularity until 2005)
Company made by - n/a
Directed by - David Firth
Animation style - Flash Animation
Target Audience - Teenagers
Purpose of Animation - To entertain the audience with such an unordinary idea.
What I like - I find it a really bizarre idea but I like that because it's very different to anything else and it's strangely entertaining.

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