the history of animation

  • Jan 1, 1299

    st francis preaching to the birds

    st francis preaching to the birds
    the repition of the motife shows that the birds are flying
  • Period: Jan 1, 1299 to

    timline

  • Jan 1, 1490

    The viruvian man

    The viruvian man
    The extra shadded legs gives illusion of movment.
  • Thaumatrope

    Thaumatrope
    the Thaumatrope showed that if 2 imiges were shown really fast they would look like one image
  • persistance of vision

    The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects' - Peter Roget
  • Phenakistoscope

    Phenakistoscope
    Phenakistoscope - produced an illusion of movement
  • paper cutout animation

    En Route -the first paper cutout animation
  • gertie the dinosaur

    gertie the dinosaur
    Winsor McCay produced a cartoon called "Gertie, The Trained Dinosaur" which amazingly consisted of 10,000 drawings. this was the first animation that was popular
  • Felix the cat

    Felix the cat
    FELIX THE CAT, the most popular character and series of this period, started as the Feline Follies from Sullivan's studio.Felix paved the way for the later animated characters.
  • STEAMBOAT WILLIE

    STEAMBOAT WILLIE
    steamboat williewas the first successful sound animated film; it made Mickey a star, and launched the Disney studio of today.
  • Donald Duck

    Donald Duck
    donald duck was also a very important character in loney tunes
  • snow white and the seven dwarfs

    snow white and the seven dwarfs
    snow white and the seven dwarfs was very popular film at its time