History of Animation

By Helsley_Daniel

  • One of the first animations

    One of the first animations
    James Stuart Blackton creates "The Enchanted Drawing" in 1900

  • A pre historic dinosaur leads the wave of the future

    A pre historic dinosaur leads the wave of the future
    Gertie the dinosaur was the first character based animal cartoon character.

  • Rotoscope

    Rotoscope
    In 1915, Max Fleischer receives a patent for the Rotoscope. The Rotoscope allows the artist to draw over live-action film, frame by frame

  • Charles Lindbergh and The Queen Fall For The Same Cat

    Charles Lindbergh and The Queen Fall For The Same Cat
    people were fascinated by the technology in the cat. They could not wait to see his next creations and his popularity continued to soar

  • When the mouse speaks, people listen

    When the mouse speaks, people listen
    The combination of dazzling, synchronized music and pictures of a kid friendly, large eared mouse made Mickey and walt disney househeld names

  • Doing it for the kids

    Doing it for the kids
    Disney's characters brought the hugability factor into cartoons. This brought the audience of children and families to disney.

  • Marketing kills the animation star

    Marketing kills the animation star
    Mickey grew in popularity causing Disney to crete marketing strategies taking away mickeys bad side losing his on screen popularity

  • Betty boop gets sexed up

    Betty boop gets sexed up
    betty was the first animated character to be censored from being inappropriate

  • toons get looney

    toons get looney
    four of the most original artists to ever come along teamed up to create looney toons and they all had different characters

  • the first animation with color

    the first animation with color
    now White and the Seven Dwarfs is the First Animation with color also made by Walt Disney

  • animators strike back

    animators strike back
    snow white and the seven dwarfs might of had a happy ending but behind the scenes the animators weren't happy. the deadlines were unreasonable and the animators had to work overtime to meet them

  • A famous Japanese animator is born

    A famous Japanese animator is born
    Miyazaki Hayao is born.

  • x marks the rating

    x marks the rating
    during ww2 they created cartoons for soldiers full of inappropriate content for children, they had to be xrated

  • cartoons go prime time

    cartoons go prime time
    animators were motivated to work on their own, many that worked for disney left after they went on strike

  • The first full-length 3D CG feature film

    The first full-length 3D CG feature film
    Toy Story is the first full-length 3D CG feature film