Untitled (5)

History of Animation

By DillyD

  • Flip book

    Flip book
    The first flipbok was patented by John Barnes Linnet and he called it a Kineograph. It is a small book with several several pages bound or held together on one side. When you bend all the pages back with your thumb and gradually let the pages flow back. While watching the images that have been drawn or printed, they create a "moving picture."

  • Praxinoscope

    Praxinoscope
    Taking a look at a praxinoscopeThe first known projected animation was created by Charles-Émile Reynaud. He made his projections public on the 28th October 1892.

  • Kinetoscope and the Cinematograph

    Kinetoscope and the Cinematograph
    Thomas Edison had invented the Kinetoscope and th Lumiere Brothers had invented the cinematograph. By this time, people started to explore the endless possibilities of animation.

  • Stop Motion

    Stop Motion
    Stop motion is a technique where real objectsare move around in different frames while an image is being recorded which when played at a normal frame rate, appear as if there is an invisible force acting upon them.
    Stop motion was given attention by all and a short stop motion animation was produced in 1908 called The Humpty Dumpty Circus. There are many different techniques for stop motion including claymation. Many many people today still use it in tv cartoons, gifs and movies.

  • Micky Mouse

    Micky Mouse
    Animated shortOn a train ride from to New York to California, Disney came up with a funny little mouse character with big round ears, a long thin tail and a big smile so he could create a cartoon to animate. This character was to be named Mortimer Mouse but his wife, Lillian, suggested a more livelier name, Mickey. From there after, he was known as Mickey Mouse.

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    Reissued trailer (1987)Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is an animated fild porduced by Walt Disney Productions. It is based on a German fairy tale. This movie earned about 8 million dollars during its initial release and because of that, it won an Oscar for Best Musical Score. Now it is worth about 416 million dollars and it only costs a little over 1 million to make.

  • Animation on colour televisions

    Animation on colour televisions
    Episode1Colour televisions were first introduced in 1951 and in 1958, the first half hour animated program was called Huckleberry Hound by Hanna-Barbera productions inc.

  • First computer animated film - CGI

    First computer animated film - CGI
    Toy story is a computer animated fild produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. This film was the first feature-length computer animated film and the first theatrical film produced by Pixar.