Creater of Zoetrope, the Zoetrope was a cylinder that had slits in the side. inside the drum was a drawing or picture that had stages of progression, so if you were to spin it and look through the slits it would look like it was moving.
Creator of Phenakistoscope. The Phenakistoscope similar to the Zoetrope in that it imitates motion by using slots that hide the full disk and have a progressive drawing or picture that moves as it rotates.
The Thaumatrope is a device that uses a piece of paper with a drawing on either side, this is attached to a piece of string on each side and is twisted to form an optical illusion, that makes it look animated.
Co-creator of the Kinetoscope. A Kinetoscope is a viewing device that has staggered images similar to the Zoetrope and Phenakistoscope, but has them hidden inside a box and are on a film-strip, attached to a set of cogs that are turned by the user to view the film/strip.
The Phenakistoscope similar to the Zoetrope in that it imitates motion by using slots that hide the full disk and have a progressive drawing or picture that moves as it rotates.
The Zoetrope was a cylinder that had slits in the side. inside the drum was a drawing or picture that had stages of progression, so if you were to spin it and look through the slits it would look like it was moving.
Creator of the Praxinoscope. The Praxinoscope was the successor to the Zoetrope and worked in a similar way, its new features included an illumination lamp, and the ability to use less distorted slides, it also had a handle so you could use it easier.
Co-creator of the Kinetoscope. A Kinetoscope is a viewing device that has staggered images similar to the Zoetrope and Phenakistoscope, but has them hidden inside a box and are on a film-strip, attached to a set of cogs that are turned by the user to view the film/strip. Thomas also was well known for inventing the first long lasting light bulb.
Co-Creator and Film-maker of the first recorded screening of a motion picture: La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon.
Co-Creator and Film-maker of the first recorded screening of a motion picture: La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon.
the flip book or Kinograph which was patented by john Barnes linnet in 1868. This is just effectively a notepad where a series of progressive images are drawn and then the pages are flicked to make it look animated.
The Praxinoscope was the successor to the Zoetrope and worked in a similar way, its new features included an illumination lamp, and the ability to use less distorted slides, it also had a handle so you could use it easier.
Considered the first projector, it projects images on a glass disk that spins really fast. The illusion is then projected onto a blank screen for viewing.
A Kinetoscope is a viewing device that has staggered images similar to the Zoetrope and Phenakistoscope, but has them hidden inside a box and are on a film-strip, attached to a set of cogs that are turned by the user to view the film/strip.
This devices served as a projector and printer and was designed to be viewable by more then one person. This was used to play the Lumiere brothers first film "Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon"
Said to the father of American animation, the entire animation was made on a blackboard.
Artist and experimental film-maker. He was known world wide for his amazing Kinetic Sculpture work.
Walt Disney Co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, Creator of Mickey Mouse and animator. Walt Disney became a world wide icon as he was the best at what he did which was creating family animations and theme park design (oddly).
Said to be the first film made entirely of traditional animation techniques, unlike humorous faces, this was made on paper and recorded in negative.
Gerti the dinosaur was made by Winsor McCay, it was made using a traditional cel-animation technique, all the animation was drawn on pieces of paper by hand.
Earl Hurd was an animator known for the Silent Bobby Bumps animation and is well known for developing cel-animation.
Animator and film director. In his Uni years he did not have easy access to a camera so he painted and scratched his filmstock instead.
In 1915 two brothers Max and David Fleischer created Rotroscoping where you use an already recorded clip and animate over it so the animation looks more life like, this is more time consuming as it requires the original recording and then the animation on top.
Warner Bros the company that has brought out more movies then can be possibly named started here.
This was a propaganda film created to persuade people to join the navy.
Colour TV was introduced in 1951 but the first animated show was shown in 1958.
Hanna-Barbera, publishers of Scooby-Doo, Top Cat and other animated shows like Johnny Bravo.
Came out with Hanna-Barbera, he was the company's first animated character.
Yellow Submarine used a new animation style called Rotoscoping where it tries to mimic live motion movement, without this revolutionary animation technique we wouldn't have half of our modern animated movies and shows.
I wonder where that fish has gone? Monty Python became well known for their unusual take on the cut out style, other famous shows that used cut out animation includes South Park.
After Effects was originally made by a company called CoSA, it was designed to aid in the creation of videos using key frames and layers.
Featured incredibly high tech animation that was created using a software called Power Animator.
Newgrounds is a popular website that hosts many animation, videos and games. Many of the animations were made on a software called Flash which is used to create vector graphics.
South Park is possibly the most controversial show still on TV. The show dose use a very rustic looking cut out animation style that has defined the series.
This film had a very unique animation style, A Scanner Darkly was a film that was filmed and then painted over by their animation team.
This film has a very strange animation technique as it uses the styling of a graphic novel but in film format.
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