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The First Animation Projector
The first animation projector, the Magic Lantern, was created in 1650 and is somewhat like our current day projectors. It would project a translucent oil painting with a candlelight, which would produce demonic images. It was usually used to scare people into thinking they were witnessing the supernatural, or the devil. There were only ever a few moving images that were able to be used through this machine, even so, it is the first machine known that could produce a moving animation. -
Flip Book
The first flip book was made in 1868. Drawings of characters were drawn slightly differently on each page, and when the book’s pages were flipped through quickly, each of the drawings would correspond to each other and create a moving image. Characters could move and do whatever the artist wished them to do. A flip book that would last 25 seconds may take almost a year to finish. -
The First Animation of the Traditional Era
The first animation shown on a screen like it is today was the Praxinoscope in 1877. It was the first silent film ever created. It was shown in a small theater in Musée Grévin, Paris, France. It is known as Théâtre Optique and it is the earliest known example of projected animation. It used hundreds of pages of drawings to project quickly on the screen to perform just a few seconds of moving picture. -
The First Broadcasted Digital Animation
The first ever digital animation with sound on Television was Steamboat Willie, which broadcasted in 1928. Walt Disney created the cartoon, and it was the third of the Mickey Mouse Series to be introduced, but the first to be broadcasted. It was entirely in black and white and was the also the first animation to ever have sound. -
The First Traditional Cartoons
Popeye the Sailor, a cartoon released in 1942. This was what the common cartoon looked like in the 40’s and 50’s. Characters were usually very different looking from an actual human because they were considered to be funnier if they looked stranger. Some believe that cartoons throughout this time were often critiquing world war II -
Colored Cartoons
Black and White cartoons were rarely ever heard from during the 70’s and 80’s. By this time, televisions usually played in color, and so did animations. This was also about the transition point between people drawing all the scenes for a cartoon, and people digitally editing scenes for a cartoon. -
Today's Digital Animations
Today digital animators use computer technology and artistic skills to create bright and high quality animated videos. We have even created a way to view our animations in stunning HD and even in 3D. The people in our current day cartoons are more realistic looking; yet still hold that cartoony animation that people have grown to love.
