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Thaumatrope
Thaumatrope was a simple toy popular during Victorian times. It's a small circular disk with two different pictures attatched on a string or a pair of strings running trough the centre. If twirled quickly, these two images seemed to have combined together to make a new image. Thaumatrope demonstrates the Phi phenomenom which is brain's capability to persistenly percieve an image. -
First newpaper published about persistence of vision
Peter Roget presented his paper 'The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects' to the British Royal Society. -
Phenakistoscope
Phenakistoscope was first invented in 1831 by both Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It's early animation device consisting of circlular disk with images evenly placed around it's centre. If rotated around it's centre, it would create an illusion of moving images. -
Zoetrope
Zoetrope effectively creates an illusion of motion by rapid succession of static pictures. The word come from greek meaning "motion" or a "wheel of life". The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. This way cyclinder creates a mechanical illusion of animation. -
Flip book
First flip book was patented by John Barness Linett in 1868. Flip book is simply a little book of especially springy pages. The viewers bend back pages and release them one at a time. This little book works because of a psychological fact of our brain being able to focus better on stationary images rather than moving. -
Thomas Edison's contribuiton
Thomas Edison announced his first kinaesthopic 50 ft long movie that lasted for aproximately 13 seconds. -
J. Stuart Blackton Directs Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
This was one of the first films that used stop-motion. It's a silent film created by Stuart Blackton. -
Phantansmagorie
In France Emile Cohl produced a film, Phantasmagorie which was the first depicting white figures on a black background. -
Gertie the Dinosaur
Gertie the Dinosaur character was realeased in 19134 by Winsor McCay. Although it wasn't the first animated film, it was considered the first cartoon that had a character with an appealing personality. It was made using keyframe animation and had a total run time of 12 seconds. -
Cel Animation
Mr.Winsor McCay invented a revolutionary method of creating animations, in order to save time and money. Instead of drawing on a single sheet of paper and then redrawing the whole scene for (12 frames/s), the scenes were drawn in parts on thin transparent celluloid acetate or in other words "cel". For example, on layer would consist of a background, then body on another layer, next layer would be a head and the next would have expressions. -
Live action & animation
Before more complicated methods of animations were created, actors were used in a live action animation shows where actors were used as puppets with a setup background corresponding to the story. This worked on a basis of a stage show -
Disney Brothers Cartoon studio opening
The Disnaey Brothers Cartoon Studeio was founded on October 16th 1923 by Walt & Roy Disney.The company was opened in the silent era and the creation of the Alice Comedies began this day. -
Snow white and seven Dwarfs
In 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became the first full-lenght animation that were movie size. I was also the first produced full colour and the first to be produced by Walth Disney productions. -
Elbert Tuganov Founds Puppet Animation Division
After succesful start, Elbert managed to grow his staff number to 20, it was decided that puppets would make their way into his studio.He made a number of films for both adults and children. -
The Smurfs are Introduce by Pierre Culliford
Pierre CUlliford introduced the Smurfs first in a comic strip in a Belgian magazine called Spirou. Later it was translated into English and was made into a cartoon for children by Hanna Barbera Productions. Pierre Culliford introduced the Smurfs first in a comic strip in a Belgian magazine, Spirou. Later it was translated into English and was made into a childrens cartoon by the Hanna-Barbera Productions -
Jurassic park
Jurassic Park use of CG for realistic living creatures -
Toy story
Toy Story first full-length 3D CG feature film
