1824-12-09 00:00:00

Peter Roget and his paper

Roget published a paper entitled 'Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel when seen through vertical apertures'

1830-04-09 00:00:00

Eadweard Muybridge

An important man in motion capture history

1832-01-01 00:00:00

Joseph Plateau creates the phenakistoscope

1832-12-24 09:29:48

Charles-Émile Reynaud creates the praxinoscope

Another improved animation device

1833-01-01 00:00:00

William Horner creates the zoetrope

An improved version of the phenakistoscope

1891-01-01 00:00:00

Thomas Edison creates a Kinetographic camera

The device that supported the concept of later movie cameras

1892-02-12 00:00:00

Creation of the first Cinematograph

A movie camera the way we know today

1895-03-22 00:00:00

World's first motion picture movie

"Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" is considered the world's first true motion picture

1914-01-01 00:00:00

Cel animation creation

Earl Hurd applied for a patent for the technique of cel animation.

1923-04-04 00:00:00

Warner Bros. is founded

A developing company of animation

1923-10-16 00:00:00

The company Walt Disney is founded

The largest animation company in history

1928-11-18 00:00:00

Steamboat Willie

World's first animation with synchronized sound, created by Walt Disney

1930-04-19 00:00:00

Looney Tunes

World's first animated television show

1937-12-21 00:00:00

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

World's first full length cel animation feature film

1940-02-10 00:00:00

Rise of Hanna-Barbera

The company was founded by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna

1952-01-01 00:00:00

Release of Neighbours

A film created by Norman McLaren, using an animation technique known as pixelation

1958-01-01 00:00:00

Production of Free Radicals

A film made by experimental filmmaker Len Lye

1968-07-17 00:00:00

Release of Yellow Submarine

A full length film made by the Beatles

1969-10-05 00:00:00

Monty Python's Flying Circus

A popular sketch comedy series that used photographic stills

1977-08-03 00:00:00

The TRS-80 home computer is released

The world's first mass produced home computer

1978-11-15 00:00:00

Lord of the Rings (1978)

A film that heavily used rotoscoping, a technique invented in 1915 by Max Fleischer

1982-07-09 00:00:00

Tron

Tron was the first film to extensively use 3D CGI in its film

1994-01-01 00:00:00

Toon Boom Animation founded

A popular animation software company

1995-10-01 00:00:00

Adobe acquire After Effects

Adobe acquire AE from Aldus.

1996-05-01 00:00:00

FutureSplash animator released

Created by FutureWave. One of the world's earliest animation programmes

1996-12-01 00:00:00

Macromedia Flash 1.0

Macromedia buy FutureWave, and FutureSplash Animator becomes Macromedia Flash 1.0

2002-11-27 00:00:00

Treasure Planet

Combines traditional 2D animation with CGI

2005-12-03 00:00:00

Adobe Flash

Adobe perform a stock swap with Macromedia. Macromedia Flash becomes Adobe Flash.

2006-05-25 00:00:00

A Scanner Darkly

A modern example of achievables with rotoscoping

2007-05-23 00:00:00

Release of Persepolis

A graphic novel film interpretation