Renowned Villains

Here is a list of the most renowned villains according to various websites from various films:

1	Dr. Hannibal Lecter (in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS)
2	Norman Bates (in PSYCHO)
3	Darth Vader (in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK)
4	The Wicked Witch of the West (in THE WIZARD OF OZ)
5	Nurse Ratched (in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST)
6	Mr. Potter (in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
7	Alex Forrest (in FATAL ATTRACTION)
8	Phyllis Dietrichson (in DOUBLE INDEMNITY)
9	Regan MacNeil (in THE EXORCIST)
10	The Queen (in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS)
11	Michael Corleone (in THE GODFATHER: PART II)
12	Alex De Large (in CLOCKWORK ORANGE)
13	HAL 9000 (in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY)
14	The Alien (in ALIEN)
15	Amon Goeth (in SCHINDLER'S LIST)
16	Noah Cross (in CHINATOWN)
17	Annie Wilkes (in MISERY)
18	The Shark (in JAWS)
19	Captain Bligh (in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY)
20	Man (in BAMBI)
21	Mrs. John Iselin (in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE)
22	Terminator (in THE TERMINATOR)
23	Eve Harrington (in ALL ABOUT EVE)
24	Gordon Gekko (in WALL STREET)
25	Jack Torrance (in THE SHINING)
26	Cody Jarrett (in WHITE HEAT)
27	Martians (in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS)
28	Max Cady (in CAPE FEAR)
29	Reverend Harry Powell (in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER)
30	Travis Bickle (in TAXI DRIVER)
31	Mrs. Danvers (in REBECCA)
32	Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker (in BONNIE AND CLYDE)
33	Count Dracula (in DRACULA)
34	Dr. Szell (in MARATHON MAN)
35	J.J. Hunsecker (in SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS)
36	Frank Booth (in BLUE VELVET)
37	Harry Lime (in THE THIRD MAN)
38	Caesar Enrico Bandello (in LITTLE CAESAR)
39	Cruella De Vil (in ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS)
40	Freddy Krueger (in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET)
41	Joan Crawford (in MOMMIE DEAREST)
42	Tom Powers (in THE PUBLIC ENEMY)
43	Regina Giddens (in THE LITTLE FOXES)
44	Baby Jane Hudson (in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE)
45	The Joker (in BATMAN)
46	Hans Gruber (in DIE HARD)
47	Tony Camonte (in SCARFACE)
48	Verbal Kint (in THE USUAL SUSPECTS)
49	Auric Goldfinger (in GOLDFINGER)
50	Alonzo Harris (in TRAINING DAY)

According to the AFI 100 Years, 100 Heroes & Villains (just the villains section)

10	The Wicked Witch of the West
9	Lex Luthor
8	Jason Voorhees
7	Freddy Kreuger
6	Michael Myers
5	Max Cady
4	Jigsaw
3	The Joker
2	Darth Vader
1	Hannibal Lector

According to Listverse.com top 10 Evil Movie Villains

The Queen -  Snow White

Cruella de Vil - 101 Dalmations

The Wicked With of the West - Wizard of Oz

"Buffalo Bill" - The Silence of the Lambs

HAL9000 - 2001 A Space Odyssey

Eve Harrington - All About Eve

Jack Torrance - The Shining

Keyser Soze - The Usual Suspects

The Martians - The War of the Worlds

John Doe - Se7en

Travis Bickle - Taxi Driver

The Joker - Batman (1989)

Bonnie & Clyde - Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

Shark - Jaws

Alex Forrest - Fatal Attraction

Max Cady - Cape Fear

The Alien - Alien

Tony Montana - Scarface

Lord Voldemort - Harry Potter

Darth Vader - Star Wars

Dr. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs

Norman Bates - Psycho

Freddie Kreuger - A Nightmare on Elm Street

Godzilla - Gojira

Joan Crawford - Mummy Dearest

Frankenstein's Monster - Frankenstein

Ronald Niedermann - The Girl Who Played With Fire

According to Franks Reel Reviews, Best Movie Villains of All Time

10	Hans Gruber - Die Hard
9	Gordon Gecko - Wall Street
8	Nurse Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
7	The Joker - Batman
6	Count Orlock - Nosferatu
5	Alex Forrest - Fatal Attraction
4	Norman Bates - Psycho
3	Henry F. Porter - It's a Wonderful Life
2	Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs
1	Lord Vader - Star Wars

According to The Times "50 Best Movie Villains"

10	Patrick Bateman - American Psycho
9	Annie Wilkes - Misery
8	Voldemort - Harry Potter
7	Freddy Kreuger - A Nightmare on Elm Street
6	Hans Gruber - Die Hard
5	Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs
4	The Queen Alien - Aliens
3	Tommy DeVito - Goodfellas
2	The Shark - Jaws
1	Lord Vader - Star Wars

According to MovieMobsters "50 Greatest Villains 10 - 1"

So these lists have some pretty good ideas about the top villains and you can see that a lot of them pop up more than once which shows that there is some real consensus in the lists. In my opinion a lot of these are in roughly the right places, but there are some villains which I think have been left out of the top 10's which really shouldn't have been.
As such I have created this list of villains that I think would be suitable for use in a Top 10 program. They are a mix of some from the lists and some which aren't but these are some villains that I think are definite candidates for a top 10 spot. Now I just need to get the best 10.

7 Billion - Jamie Lee Godfrey

48HRS - Sergio Saleh

MTB Evolution - Piotr Kabat

Just the first 1.5 mins of this video.

A Day in the Life of Social Media - DBA Worldwide

Vancouver Film School - Crazy Enough

Colin Hesterly

Demo Reel



The Empire

Vimeo Awards

Historia

The State of the Internet

Another nicely designed simplified animation using some great information graphics and simple effects to make a composition that flows smoothly and contains really interesting facts about internet use.

Todor & Petru

This animation from CRCR is a short abstract action movie which utilizes digital video and frame by frame animation. It features two men sort of fighting this monster thing which I don't really understand but it looks great. I can't tell for sure whether the digital film part of the movie is actually frame by frame photography creating a stop motion animation or whether it is just normal digital video recording with the effect which picks out every couple of frames and elongates them to create the stop motion effect but it works to the same effect either way.

As for the cartoon style monster thing animation, kit was very likely done on Adobe Flash. You can tell because it has been manipulated frame by frame in ways that it cant have just been transformed in after effects. Flash can work in a much more classical form of animation where each frame is redrawn and then shown in quick succession to create the illusion of movement. I can't think of a way that this could really be re-created in after effects but it shows a good understanding of flash animation techniques.

TELEPHONEME - MK12

This is an animation called MK12 which incorporates different type and animation effects as well as digital video and photography and what looks like some 3D design; So pretty much all digital media rolled into one.
It is hard to say what programs would have been used to create this but you can be sure that a fair amount of it would have used a video editing program which was probably Adobe AfterEffects.

I really like the use of all the different digital mediums and effects mixed up together to create this old style 50's/60's effect of a public information film but at times there is a bit much going on on the screen.

35mm

This is a 2 minute animation created by Pascal Monaco and Felix Meyer using After Effects. The concept behind the animation was that Monaco, Meyer and a couple of others wanted to pick their favourite 35 films and represent them as simply as possible within the 2 minutes as a kind of tribute to cinema.
I really like the simplified style of the animation and how each sequence flows into the next so smoothly. The effects used in this sequence are actually quite simple and not really anything we haven't learned. The majority of the animation is transformations with some basic blur effects added which help accentuate movement and speed really well.

I have no idea what like half of the movies are, but it still looks cool.

Fable II

I remembered this promotional website for the game 'Fable II' from a couple of years ago that I was impressed with at the time. The website told an animated interactive story in which the user plays the role of an adventurer growing up. The outcome of the story differs depending on the choices that you make as the character (e.g. Good/Evil, Greedy/Philanthropic) with quite a few different routes to choose from at different points in the story. It is a bit outdated now as Fable III was just recently released but I managed to find the old website. 

One of the things that struck me about the animation was the style in which it was animated. It uses a lot of layers and very little frame by frame animation that I can see, meaning most of it is just tweening of the existing layers (so for example, each arm part, leg part, torso and neck are on different layers that just move around each other). It also has a really strange mixture of a kind of collage look which makes it really cartoony. Stranger still is the way that the background design doesn't share the same style as the character design and neither resemble the actual game at all, yet it still works overall and is quite interesting to watch. It also has some pretty harsh points of violence in quite a black comedy kind of way which contradicts the connotations of the cartoon style but represents the game quite well. 

This same style of animation could be quite simply reproduced in after effects for the most part because it would just use layers and simple transformations over time which we have already learned about. This wouldn't have been made in after effects because of the amount of interactivity and its precision. This website would have been made using Adobe Flash as it can animate the more 'frame-by-frame' parts of the movie like the blood spurts but mainly because it would have been coded using ActionScript. ActionScript is a Flash-based 3rd level programming language used within the animations/movies/games which is there pretty much specifically to create really vast interactivity in the application. 

This is the link to the site so you can see for yourself: http://fable2.xbox.com/Experience.aspx

Here is an example of a small part of the animation on the website so that you can see the kind of style that i'm talking about.

Night by Night

I found this video on the Behance network and couldn't embed it so I had to do some stuff with Youtube to get it to work on here rather than with Vimeo.
This is a brilliant example of some relatively simple use of adobe After Effects to create a really nice composition. I really like the quite obvious use of layers and still images which make the animation look almost like an animated book rather than a sequence.

Nokta.

This video seems to be kind of like an advert to show off the skills that the designer ,Onur Senturk, has to offer to all potential clients (Which is fair enough as he does have a lot of skill to offer).
It shows a mixture of After Effects, 2D and 3D animation along with digital video capture all mixed together with a similar style.
This is another example of how AfterEffects can be used across different platforms relatively easily without any obvious transitions.

'A Short Love Story'

Again, content-wise this film is really cliched and kind of shallow in terms of emotional depth but it has still generated some really nice effects and shows a really advanced understanding of using AfterEffects along with some stop motion animation. It is a good example of how AfterEffects can be used across different mediums and media and can bring it all together to make one smooth animation.

BIKES

The content of the sequence is a bit embarrassing but it looks brilliant.
The use of colours and constantly changing opacity makes the composition really bold and interesting.