Origins and development of the Computer Animation field.

By arodfullsail

  • Walt Disney

    A contract was signed for the production of Alice Comedies by Walk and M. J. Winkler. The Disney Brothers Studios began on this date. Walt proceeded to create an American icon that is Steamboat Willie. We know this icon to be our Micky Mouse today.

  • The Great Depression

    Lasting for 10 years and ending in 1939, the great depression was the great depression was the economic downfall that effected the industrial world. Approximately 15 million Americans were unemployed. It began with the crash of the stock market on this date and the US was the only country with idustrial country to not hold any type of SSI or unemployment insurance.

  • John Whitney, Sr.

    Approximate date Whitney founded a company name Motion Graphics, Inc. and created commercials and television animations. He used an analogue computer that was primarily created to be used on an Antiaircraft. He continued to work and develope this analogue computer for the years to come as part of the beginning of computer animation.

  • William Fetter

    Approximate Date Fetter is created as the first to coin the term '"computer graphics." He worked for a company called Boeing that is now the largest manufacturing company in America that developes aircraft. 3D animation made its debute with Fetter when he developed a orthographic view of the human body in 1960.

  • Whitney's film, Catalogue, was created

    Approximate date Whitney created a film called Catalogue of effects that he had finaly perfected with his practice and mastering of the analogue computer. Catalogue was a 7 minute film of the work that Whitney was working on over the prior year.

  • The First Lunar Landing

    On this date, Apollo 11 made its live stream from the moon to transmit back to earth the first landing on the moon. Though there are still conspiracies to this day as to whether we ever actually made a landing on this day, video shows a breakthrough for audiovisual transmission that captured the first steps of Astronaut Neil Armstrong.

  • First ever computer generated image in a movie

    The Andromedia Strain was the first Computer Generated Image or CGI in a movie. The producers used a 35mm camera to turn 2D drawings into a 3D layer to make an artificial computer looking animation.

  • First fully animated 3D footage

    Approximate Date The film 'FutureWorld' is the first footage developed fully of 3D animation. The creator was later to become the co-founder of Pixar Studios who set the mile stone later with his creation of Toy Story.

  • John Lasseter

    Approximate date Lasseter began his life in computer animation in 1982 while working on the production of Disney's Tron. He became very interested in animation and worked with his colleague Glen Keane to create a short film that later developed into the movie "Where the Wild Things Are."

  • Birth of Pixar

    Steve Jobs established and created Pixar and Lasseter is merges as director/producer. Pixar went on to produce such as Monster inc., Brave, Cars, Toy Story, and many more. Their studios are locatied in Emeryville, California and they began with about 45 employees.

  • Release of Toy Story

    Pixar releases the movie Toy Story on this date. Toy Story was the first film that was completely made by 3D animation. Production began in 1993 and was created by Pixar Animation Studios. Toy Story made over $358 million worldwide and received Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

  • YouTube Created

    Originally created with the intentions of making it a dating website created Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim worked together after creating another company known as PayPal. The creators eventually decided to not make YouTube a dating site, but instead transitioned into what it is today when one of the creators tried to find a video online, but couldnt. They decided that It would be a better idea to turn their website into a video hosting website.

  • First Youtube Video uploaded

    YouTube user Yakov Lapitsky uploaded his video titled "Me at the zoo" on this date. The video shows creator Jawed Karim at the zoo with elephants in the background and received over 4.2 million views on the day it was uploaded.