Animation Timeline
This Timeline will be about the people who created some of the most important parts of the history of Animation.
1786-01-01 00:00:00
William Horner and the Zoetrope
The Zoetrope was invented by William Horner in 1834. It was an early form of motion picture projector that consisted of a drum containing a set of still images. This was a technique called flick book.
1786-01-01 00:00:00
Money in Animation From 1786 to Now
Since the first signs on animation in 1786 which was just a box spinning around, money in animation has grown to what it is today like animated films which costs millions to make.For example Frozen.
1786-05-01 00:00:00
Advertisment
Advertisement has changed a lot since the first types of animation came to light in 1786.
1786-08-27 22:38:06
Flick Book Technique
A flipbook animation is a simple type of animation created by viewing successive images so quickly that they seem to form a sequence. The most common method is by printing images on the pages of a book, which can then be flipped or thumbed through rapidly.
1801-10-14 00:00:00
Joseph Plateau (phenakitoscope)
Joseph Plateau was born 14th October 1801 and invented the Phenakitoscope in 1832
1830-04-09 00:00:00
Edward Muybridge
Edward Muybridge was born in Apr 1830 and invented the Zoopraziscope.
1844-12-08 00:00:00
Emile Reynaud
Emile Reynaud was born 8th December 1884 and invented the in Praxinoscope 1876
1846-02-07 15:45:13
Lumière brothers
The Lumiere Brothers were born in Feb 1846 and invented a recreation of Thomas Edisons work and called it the Cinématographe.
1847-04-09 00:00:00
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was born Apr 1847 and invented the kinetoscope.
1890-05-01 00:00:00
Cinema
Ever since the 1890s cinema has grown rapidly with more money put in to it today through animated movies and other types of movies.
1901-02-07 15:45:13
Walt Disney
Walt Disney was an American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of cartoon films and as the creator of Disneyland.
1901-02-07 15:45:13
Len Lye
Len Lye was born Feb 1901 and is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists. His international reputation stands primarily on his achievements as a filmmaker and kinetic sculptor.
1914-02-07 15:45:13
Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren was born in Scotland in 1914. His interest in filmmaking began early in life after he became acquainted with works by the great Russian filmmakers Eisenstein and Pudovkin and the German animator Oskar Fischinger. The technique he used was drawn on film.
1914-11-22 20:23:03
Drawn on film
Drawn-on-film animation, also known as direct animation or animation without camera, is an animation technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock, as opposed to any other form of animation where the images or objects are photographed frame by frame with an animation camera.
1919-07-25 18:21:08
Cel Aniamtion
Cel Animation is a traditional form of animation used in the production of cartoons or animated movies where each frame of the scene is drawn by hand. A full-length feature film produced using cel animation would often require a million or more drawings to complete
1923-04-04 15:45:13
Warner Bros
The company was created around 1918 (incorporated 1923) by the four Warner brothers Harry (born Hirsz), Albert (born Aaron), Sam (born Szmul), and Jack (born Itzhak), who already had a thriving movie theater business.
1944-02-07 15:45:13
Hannah Barbera
Hanna-Barbera was originally formed as a division of MGM in 1944 by Tom and Jerry creators and directors; William "Bill" Hanna & Joseph "Joe" Barbera and live-action director George Sidney as "H-B Enterprises" in order to produce sponsored films and later television commercials.
1947-05-01 00:00:00
Computer Games
Ever since the first electronic video game was created in 1947 games have changed dramatically and cost a lot more to make.
1950-08-15 00:00:00
Children’s Television
Children's television has changed a lot since the first air of it in 1950. It has become a bigger part of television with a huge variety of animated mostly programs.
1950-08-18 00:00:00
Rotascoping
Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device was eventually replaced by computers.
1968-05-01 00:00:00
Yellow Submarine
This is an animated film about a song created by the Beatles.
1969-10-05 00:00:00
Monty Python
Monty Python are a British surreal comedy group that created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that was first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series
1981-08-01 00:00:00
Music Videos
Music videos have changed a lot since the first ones were recorded in the 1980s with some artist and bands using animation for there videos instead of just them in the videos.
1985-01-01 00:00:00
Mobile Phones
The mobile phone has changed substantially form the first phone created to the smart phones of today.
1990-06-26 10:05:33
Powerpoint
PowerPoint animation is a form of animation which uses Microsoft PowerPoint and similar programs to create a game or movie. The artwork is generally created using PowerPoint's AutoShape features, and then animated slide-by-slide or by using Custom Animation. These animations can then be shared by transferring the PowerPoint file they were created in, and can be viewed with PowerPoint or Microsoft's free PowerPoint Viewer.
1991-05-01 00:00:00
Websites
Websites have changed dramatically over the last 20 years form just text and info to pictures and animated parts of websites
1991-06-26 10:05:33
Photographic
This animation created through photography. This used not a lot but mostly in creating realistic animation from real life situations For example the animation of someone hovering over the floor.
1994-06-26 10:05:33
Toon Boom Studio
is a Canadian software company that specializes in animation production software. This animation software company is a division of Corus Entertainment, founded in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec, Toon Boom develops animation and storyboarding software for film, television, web animation, games, mobile devices, training applications, and education.
1999-06-26 10:05:33
Flash and After Effects
Adobe Flash is a multimedia and software platform used for creating vector graphics, animation, games and rich Internet applications that can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics, visual effects and compositing app developed by Adobe Systems used in the process of filmmaking,television production and in my case animation.
2000-02-07 21:28:56
Anime studio
Anime Studio is a proprietary vector-based 2D animation software for animators originally distributed by LostMarble, later by e frontier. Since November 2007, Smith Micro Software has distributed Anime Studio
2006-08-18 00:00:00
A Scanner Darkly
This is a move about An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result. This uses the technique of rotoscoping.
2008-04-25 00:00:00
Persepolis
This is a movie about a Poignant coming of age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. This uses the technique of traditional animation through drawings and the uses of layers.