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30,000 BCE
Shar-e Sukhteh, Iran
A bronze-age pottery bowl depicts goats leaping. -
2400 BCE
Fifth Dynasty of Egtptian pharaohs
An image that shows various stages of a pair of wrestling men in motion. -
1800 BCE
Praxinoscope
History of animation started on 20th of July 1887 in France. Charles-Émile Reynaud self-taught engineer created and presented the 1st Praxinoscope. on 28 October 1892 he projected the first animated film in public. -
1603 BCE
Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern is an image projector using pictures on sheets of glass. Since some sheets contain moving parts, it is considered the first example of projected animation. -
The First Photograph
Image that was created on a piece of paper coated with silver chloride. -
Thaumatrope
The Thaumatrope was a disk with a picture on each side. -
Phenakistosope
The early animation device was designed by Joseph Plateau in 1939, but was not until 1841. The Plateau is credited with inventing the device, many other engineers were working similar ideas around the same time. -
Pauvre Pierrot
Was the first animated film in public, at the Valise Graven in Paris. -
The Humpty Dumpty Circus
The first animated film using the stop-motion technique to give the illusion of movement to inanimate objects. -
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Marks the first entirely animated film, using stop-motion
photography to create action. -
Fantasmagorie
Is the first animated film using hand-drawn animation, and is considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. -
Gertie The Dinosaur
The first animated film to feature a dinosaur. -
Fantasmagorie
Created from over 700 drawings, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing on top of it. By showing the negative instead of a positive of the film, Cohl made his line drawings appear to be chalk drawings- white on black instead of the black on white of this actual work. -
Felix the cat
Musical Mews and Feline Follies introduced Felix the Cat—often
considered the first animated movie star. -
Laugh-O- Gram
Walt Disney's earliest carton series, began in Kansas City, Missouri Produced this for Thomas McCrum, a Kansas City dentist. -
First Mickey Mouse Cartoon
Was shown as a silent film, with the main characters: Mickey and Minnie Mouse. -
Bray Pictures Corporation
The first studio to specialize in animated fills, J.R. B ray gave many animators their start in the business. -
Merrie Melodies
Warner brothers cartoons founded, create Merrier Melodies series. -
Snow White
Walt Disney releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first animated feature to use hand-drawn animation. -
Yogi Bear
The Yogi Bear show, a spin off of Huckleberry Hound (another Hanna-Barbara production), debuts on national TV. -
The Pink Phink
The Pink Phink is known as the Pink Panther series and continues to create shorts for theatrical release. -
Fritz The Cat
Fritz the Cat is released- the first animated
adult (X-rated) feature film. -
The Adventures of Andre and Wally B
The Adventures of Andre and Wally B., the first fully CGI- animated film short. -
Rock and Roll
The first animated feature containing computer-generated imagery. -
Period: to
Modern American Era
The CGI (computer generated imagery) revolutionized animation. A principal difference of CGI animation compared to traditional animation is that drawing is replaced by 3D modeling, almost like a virtual version of stop-motion. A form of animation that combines the two and uses 2D computer drawing can be considered computer aided animation. -
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American adult animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is the longest-running American sitcom, the longest-running American animated program, and in 2009 it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted primetime television series. -
Cartoon Network
The worlds first all-cartoon network in late 1992. The network had and still has 1000.s of hours of animated content. -
Toy Story
Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated
feature film, was released. -
The Hunchback of Notredame
An American Musical drama film produced in Walt Disney Features. -
Bambi 2
The last VHS film for Disney to release. -
Fly me to the moon
Was produced and released exclusively in 3D, and became the first animated feature to be full pipeline 3D. -
Paranorman
The first 3-D stop-motion animated film that also has it's characters computer generated using 3D printing technology.
