History Of Animation

History Of Animation

Persistence of Vision

Persistance of vision is the idea that when our brain cannot process the animation and fills in the blank. This is important in animation as it allows the producer to make less frames and save time.

ZoeTrope

A Zoetrope is one of the most commonly known forms of old animation where usually 12 images were placed in a circular drum like object and since the images are so close together that the persistence of vision effect happens and our brain creates a short clip based off of the images. This could be considered the worlds first GIF.

Phenakistoscope

The  Phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached to a handle . Around the disc's centre was a series of drawings showing the phases of the animation. The user would spin the disc and look through the slits on the side.

George Méliès 

Georges Méliès was a famous french illusionist and film maker he is one of the leading people in technical techniques in his time. He is one of the first people to ever use Special Effects in his films.
In the film below , A Trip To The Moon, you can see Georges' face in the moon. 
In one of his other films , Indian Rubber Head, He is able to put his own head on the table, then inflate and deflate it.

Winsor Mccay 

Winsor Mccay was an american cartoonist and animator, his animations consisted of 25 HAND drawn images per second of animation, At the time nothing like his work had ever been seen before. In the cartoon below , Gertie The Dinosaur, This cartoon consists of Winsor's hand drawn images only.

Lotte Reiniger

Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger was a German Director and was one of the leading people in paper silhouette. She was the inventor of cut-out animation. Cut out animation is where you make a silhouette out of paper or cardboard and make is look like it is moving by itself.

Walt Disney

Walt Disney is possibly the most well known person in animation. His company produced some of the earliest examples of cel based animation. One of his best pieces of work was Steamboat willie.  The artist believed to have drawn steamboat willie is a cartoonist by the name of UB Iwerks. One of the most interesting things about this animation was the sounds. Animations before were well recieved by the public but they weren't liked by everyone. Walt Disney thought that the one thing that would make the animation better would be to include a soundtrack. This seemed to work as Steamboat Willie was critically acclaimed.