History Animation Timeline

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    History of Animation

  • Phenakistoscope

    Phenakistoscope
    The phénakisticope was the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion. The phénakisticope is regarded as one of the first forms of moving media entertainment that paved the way for the future motion picture and film industry.[1] It can be compared to a GIF animation as it has a short duration and plays as a loop until the viewer stops it.
  • zoetrope

    zoetrope
    A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.
  • Flip Book

    Flip Book
    A flip book or flick book is a book that has a sieries of pictures and when it is fliped
  • Praxinoscope

    Praxinoscope
    The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered.
  • First Projection in Public

    First Projection in Public
    Fist animated projection in public by Charles-Émile Reynaud
    his projections were hand drawn on a clear board.
  • J. Stuart Blackton

    J. Stuart Blackton
    he was the first film maker use stop motion techniques with stop motion and hand drawn pictures
  • Winsor McCay

    Winsor McCay
    created the film gertie the dinosaur wich was a high quality and highly popular revolutionary film. he also made a famous comic strip called Nemo.
  • My Old Kentucky Home

    My Old Kentucky Home
    My Old Kentucky Home is a film series that is most likely the first attempt to animated dialog. This is an important step for sound effects making the films more entertaining.
  • el apostol

    el apostol
    the first feater legnthfull animated film called el apostol created in argintina
  • Steamboat Willie

    Steamboat Willie
    Steam boat Willie was Disney's first breakthrough in the animation industry the video is third of the mickey mouse series.It was the first film that had a fully post film soundtrack adding great Emerson to the video.
  • King of Jazz

    King of Jazz
    King of Jazz was a musical film, this cartoon is the the first technicolor film made. It was the first film to have a prerecorded soundtrack.
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full length cel animated film in history. It was based off of a germane story brother Grim.The film was suppose to cost $250,000 but ended up costing a whopping $1,488,422.74 an enormous amount for a film in that time. Walt Disney set the highest standards for the animation industry at the time.
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican

    The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican
    The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican was the first animated television series to air, it aired on local stations in Chicago, the shows run time was five minutes, and was known for its poor voice overs, sketch artstyle and reused animations.
  • Toy Story

    Toy Story
    Toy Story was the first computer animated feature film. every blade of grass and every detail had to be created. the films creation process was extremely tedious and the characters had to have 3d clay models for the creators to be able to implement an accurate design into the film. To sync the voice actors voices and facial expressions with the character the team spent a week per 8 seconds of animation. The film earned over 373 million dollars worldwide.
  • Toy story 3

    Toy story 3
    Toy story has already had a great impact on the animation industry it also set the standards and the popularity of CGI to a new level. Toy story 3 made over a billion dollars worldwide making it one of the most profitable films of all time.