5 types of animation

First Stop Motion Animation

1898

The first place stop motion shows up is in 1898, in a movie called The Humpty Dumpty Circus, which has been lost to the world they used his daughter's set of small circus dolls.

The first known traditional animation

1908

The French artist Émile Cohl created the first animated film using what came to be known as traditional animation methods: the 1908 Fantasmagorie. The main character is drawn by the artist's hand on camera

First animated movie with sound

1924

Oh Mabel is a 1924 American animated short film, part of the Song Car-Tunes film series. This film is the first sound film of the series, and used the Phonofilm sound-on-film system. The Song Car-Tunes series, before it ended in September 1926, eventually totaled 36 films, of which 19 were made with sound.

First Traditionally Animated Movie

1937

Many consider Walt Disney's 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the first animated feature film, though at least seven films were released earlier. However, Disney's film was the first one completely made using hand-drawn animation.

First Television animation

1948

Crusader Rabbit is the first animated series produced specifically for television. Its main characters were Crusader Rabbit and his sidekick Ragland T. Tiger, or "Rags", and their nemeses Dudley Nightshade and Bilious Green. The stories were 4-minute-long satirical cliffhangers.traditional cel animation.

First animated film filmed in widescreen

1955

Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated romantic musical comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution. The 15th Disney animated feature film, it was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process. cel was used

First Vector Animation

1968

In 1968 a group of Soviet physicists and mathematicians with N.Konstantinov as its head created a mathematical model for the motion of a cat. On a BESM-4 computer they devised a programme for solving the ordinary differential equations for this model. The Computer printed hundreds of frames on paper using alphabet symbols that were latter filmed in sequence thus creating the first computer animation of a character, a walking cat.

First 3D Animation

1972

It was produced in 1972 and is believed to be the world's first computer-generated 3D animation. It was created by Ed Catmull, a true pioneer of 3D technology, who was a computer scientist at the University of Utah.Autodesk's first animation package was AutoFlix, for use with AutoCAD. Their first full 3D animation software was 3D Studio for DOS in 1990, which was developed under license by Gary Yost of The Yost Group

First Adult Cartoon Film

1972

Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American adult animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. It was Bakshi's feature film debut and is loosely based on the Fritz the Cat comic strips by Robert Crumb. It was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States. traditional cel animation.

First feature film to have live-action and cartoon animation share the screen for the entire film

1988

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman.Combining live-action and animation, the film is set in Hollywood during the late 1940s, where animated characters and people co-exist.traditional cel animation.

Die Hard 2

1990

First digitally-manipulated matte painting.A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location.

First animated film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

1991

Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. traditional cel animation.

First fully computer animated film

1995

The first fully computer-animated feature film was Pixar's Toy Story (1995). The process of CGI animation is still very tedious and similar in that sense to traditional animation, and it still adheres to many of the same principles.CGI is used to animate the pattern indicator, and to plot the paths of falling objects, model parallax effects on backgrounds, and tweak lighting and lens flares.

What Dreams May Come

1998

First use of 3D CGI in combination with 3D location scanning (Lidar) and motion-analysis based 3D camera tracking in a feature film.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

1999

First film to use CG extensively for thousands of shots, including backgrounds, environmental effects, vehicles, and crowds. Several CG characters stood alongside real actors in dozens of shots, making them the first CG "supporting" cast members.