Animation

History of Animation Timeline

  • The Flip Book

    The Flip Book
    The Flip Book, created by John Barnes Linnett, was a series of seperate pages that had different pictures on each one. So when you would flip the pages at a fast, rapid paste, it would simulate an animation of what they've drawn. This was known as the start of the method we call now, animation.
  • The Praxinoscope

    The Praxinoscope
    The Praxinoscope was an animation device created by Charles-Émile Reynaud that was strips of papers placed around a cylinder to with mirrors that made an animation by the reflection of the strips of papers.
  • The Kinetoscope

    The Kinetoscope
    The Kinetoscope was an animation device where someone could view a 13 second animation by just looking down into a tube. This device was created by Thomas Edison in 1888.
  • The Cinematograph

    The Cinematograph
    the Cinematograph was a motion picture film camera that was created by Léon Bouly. This device basically acted like an old age film projector, unlike what we use today.
  • Humorous phases of funny faces

    Humorous phases of funny faces
    Humorous phases of funny face was a revolutionary animated cartoon made by James Stuart Blackton that represented the basics of animation by animating funny faces.
  • Walt Disney Studios

    Walt Disney Studios
    In 1923, the Walt Disney Studios was created. This was mainly a company that made small animated shorts during their time. Little did they know, that this company was the future for many animated movies and shorts.
  • Steam Boat Willie

    Steam Boat Willie
    Steam Boat Willie was an animated short film directed by Walt Disney. The reason this cartoon was so special was that it was the first ever film to have sound and a fully produced soundtrack.
  • The Multiplane Camera

    The Multiplane Camera
    The Multiplane Camera was a special motion picture camera that created three dimensional effects in an animation. This was invented by Lotte Reiniger and produced many newly made motion pictures.
  • Other Techniques of Animation

    Other Techniques of Animation
    Girard and Maciejewski at OSU publish a paper describing the use of inverse kinematics and dynamics for animation. Their techniques are used in the animation "Eurythmy. Which was basically computer graphics for animating.
  • Newly Made Motion Pictures

    Newly Made Motion Pictures
    After the newly made techniques of animation, various movies such as Toy Story and Jurassic Park were made. And that is how animation was used during the time.