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Xerox-April 18, 1906, Rochester, NY
adapt the technology for film, and the final process allowed animator drawings to be printed directly onto cels. This accomplished things: one, it freed Disney from the need to hand ink each and every animated cel, and the costs of releasing two versions of Lady and the Tramp and it meant that instead of having to hand draw 99 little Dalmatian puppies, Disney could, for all intents and purposes, just photocopy them. -
1888-1908: Earliest animations on film
Charles-Emile Reynaud, His Pantomimes Lumineuses series of animated films each contained 300 to 700 frames that were manipulated back and forth to last 10 to 15 minutes per film. -
1908-1927, The silent era- Traditional animation
The French artist Émile Cohl created the first animated film using what came to be known as traditional animation methods. In 1915, Max and Dave Fleischer invented rotoscoping, the process of using film as a reference point to more easily create realistic animated movements. -
1924-1928 Introduction of synchronized sound Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse[edit]
Disney and another animator named Ub Iwerks developed Mickey Mouse in 1928. At first it was. Bust and failed to impressive his test audience but after some live-action movies with synchronized sound had become successful, Disney started working on a special sound production that would launch the series more convincingly. for example Mickey makes music using animals aboard the boat. The film became a huge success and Mickey Mouse would soon become the most popular cartoon character in history. -
1930-1935 Introduction of color
In 1932 Disney worked with the Technicolor company to create the first full color animation Flowers and Trees, introducing the three-strip technique. The cartoon was very successful and won an Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons. Soon after full color animation soon became the industry standard. -
stop motion history 1898
The very first documented stop motion animated film is credited to J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith for Vitagraph's The Humpty Dumpty Circus which was released in 1898. ... It showed moving furniture and demonstrated the basic technique of object animation. -
multiplane camera 1933
he multiplane camera is a motion-picture camera used in the traditional animation process that moves a number of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another. This creates a sense of parallax or depth. -
Walt Mirror
The mirror has a considerable 1 1/4" bevel and may be hung horizontally or vertically. Designer: Billy Moon. Dimensions: 36 W X 48 H X 2 D (in) -
1960s to 1980s: The television era
Competition from television drew audiences away from movie theaters in the late 1950s. The theatrical animated short began its decline, while cartoons became quite popular on television, especially after color television was introduced (to the US Market in 1954). -
Computer animation
Early experiments with computers to generate (abstract) moving images have been conducted since the 1940s. In 1968 Soviet physicists and mathematicians created a mathematical model for the motion of a cat, with which they produced a short animated film. -
Polygonal modeling
In 3D computer graphics, Polygonal modeling is an approach for modeling objects by representing or approximating their surfaces using polygons. Polygonal modeling is well suited to scanline rendering and is therefore the method of choice for real-time computer graphics. Alternate methods of representing 3D objects include subdivision surfaces, (a smooth surface) and equation-based representations. -
1928 to 1960s: The golden age of Hollywood
When it became known that Disney was working on a feature-length animation, critics regularly referred to the project as "Disney's folly", not believing that audiences could stand the expected bright colors and jokes for such a long time. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered on 21 December 1937 and became a worldwide success.