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Flip Book
The beginning, middle, and ending
drawings of a flipbook are similar to what animators call “extremes” or
“key frames” and the drawings that link them could
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Praxiniscope
In 1892, Émile Reynaud opened his popular Théâtre Optique in
Paris, where he projected films that had been drawn directly on
transparent celluloid, a technique that would not be used again until
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First animation studio
Raoul Barré and Bill Nolan
opened the first animation
studio in New York in 1914. -
Rotoscope
Brothers Max
and Dave Fleischer, creators of
Betty Boop, patented the
rotoscope in 1917, enabling
animators to copy the
movement of live action by
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The first cartoon
The Disney studio produced Steamboat Willie
(1928), the first cartoon to synchronize sound with movement, and the
short three-color Technicolor film Flowers and Trees, which won the first
Oscar for animation in 1932. I -
Commercial animation using three-dimensional materials.
. In the 1940s, George Pal’s Puppetoons
represented one of the few examples of commercial animation using
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First feature-length computer-animated film
In 1995, Disney released the Pixar production Toy Story, the first
feature-length computer-animated film, which the Academy honored
with a special award to its creator John Lasseter.