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History of Animation

  • On 1824

    On 1824
    On 1824 this person Peter Roget presented his paper on Animation to the British Royal Society.
  • On 1887

    On 1887
    On 1887 Thomas Edison started his work on Animation
  • Thomas Armat

    Thomas Armat
    Thomas Armat designed the vitascope which projected the films of Thomas Edison. This machine had a major influence on all sub-sequent projectors.
  • 1906

    1906
    J. Stuart Blackton made the first animated film which he called "Humorous phases of funny faces."
  • 1911

    1911
    Winsor McCay produced an animation sequence using his comic strip character "Little Nemo."
  • 1914

    1914
    Winsor McCay produced a cartoon called "Gertie, The Trained Dinosaur" which amazingly consisted of 10,000 drawings.
  • 1923

    1923
    Walt and Roy Disney found Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.

    and then later then Walt Disney extended Max Fleischer's technique of combining live action with cartoon characters in the film "Alice's Wonderland".
  • Steam Boat Willy

    Steam Boat Willy
    Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound called "Steam Boat Willy".
  • Harry Smith

    Harry Smith
    Harry Smith produced animation by drawing directly onto film.
  • Ken Knowlton

    Ken Knowlton
    Ken Knowlton, working at Bell Laboratories, started developing computer techniques for producing animated movies.
  • Joshua Mosley

    Joshua Mosley
    This guy was born on May 18 1980 and was born in Tarzana California USA ***Joshua Mosley is Associate Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
    and so he was a very fine artist during the late 1900's
  • Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park
    Jurassic Park use of CG for realistic living creatures