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Phenakistoscope (Joseph Plateau, 1832)
The phenakistoscope was the first widespread animation gadget that created an easy illusion of motion, the phenakistoscope is regarded as one of the very first forms of moving media entertainment that created the future for motion pictures and film industry. -
Zoetrope (William Horner, 1834)
A zoetrope is one of many pre-film animation devices that makes the illusion of motion by showing a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. -
Pranxinoscope (Emile Raynaud, 1877)
The pranxinoscope was an animation device the successor to the zoetrope. It was first made in France in 1877 by Charles-Emile Raynaud. Like the zoetrope it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The pranxinoscope was better than the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors. -
Zoopraxinoscope (Eadweard Muybridge, 1878)
The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879 it may be considered the first ever movie projector. The zoopraxiscope produced images from a rotating glass disks in rapid sequence to give the impression of motion. -
Kinetoscope (Thomas Edison, 1894)
The Kinetoscope is an initial motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was made for films to be looked by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. -
Cinematograph (Lumiere brothers, 1895)
The device was first invented and branded as the "Cinématographe Léon Bouly" by a French inventor called Léon Bouly on February 12, 1892. Bouly invented the term “cinematograph”, from the Greek for “writing in movement”. Due to his lack of money Bouly was unable to produce his ideas properly and maintain his patent fees, so he decided to sell his rights to the device and its name to the Lumière Brothers. In 1895, they applied the name to a device that was largely their own creation. -
Sound in animation 1928
The first ever “talking picture” was the jazz singer in 1928 and then in 1928 steamboat willie was one of the first experiments in composing an audio soundtrack for animation. When willie screen with (live) sound when animation was half-finished - test audience was widely pleased -
CGI animation 1995
Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images. The most common word that is used is CGI. Computer animation is a digital successor to the stop motion techniques used in traditional. -
Performance (motion) capture 2004
The actor wheres a special skintight suit with markers all over the suit or can sometimes be placed directly on the skin, there will be several cameras all around the actor to record there movements simultanoulsy, recording the three dimesional position of the sensors and not recording the rest of the actor. -
Translucent paper
Translucent paper is very important to animators as they don’t have to change the background of an image, they can just keep the background and then change the characters arm movement or change of his item of clothes. Translucent paper really helped as it took less time to make any short films or videos etc. -
Standardisation of film
The word frame rate also commonly known as frames per second (fps), is the rate at which a device, such as a motion picture camera, can produce its own sequential images which are called frames. -
Computer drawing software
Computer aided design software is normally used for architects, engineers, drafters, artists and others that create precision drawings or even technical illustrations. The CAD software can either be used to make two-dimensional (2-D) drawings or even three-dimensional (3-D) models.
