History of Animation

• Animation is the art of making inanimate objects appear to move.
• SHAHR-E SUKHTEH is a bronze-age pottery bowl depicts goats leaping.
• The Vitruvian Man, also known as The Proportion of Man, is a drawing made by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490. The drawing shows multiple angles, implying movements.
• The Magic Lantern is an image projector using pictures in sheets of glass. Since some sheets contain moving parts, it is considered the first example of projected animation.
• The Thaumatrope housed a rotating mechanism with a different picture on each side. When rotated, you see a combined picture (known as persistence of vision).
• The Phenakistoscope featured a spinning disk reflected in mirrors that made it seem like the pictures were moving.
• The Zoetrope was a hollow drum that housed images on long interchangeable strips that spun and made the images appear to move.
• The Flip-book, also known as the kineograph, reached a wide audience and is credited with inspiring early animators more than the machines developed in this era.
• The Praxinoscope/Movieola expanded on the zeotrope, using, multiple wheels to rotate images. It is considered to have shown the first prototype of the animated cartoon.
• The Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, marks the first entirely animated film, using stop-motion photography to create action.
• The Fanrasmagorie is the first animated film using hand-drawn animation and is considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon.
• Musical Mews and Feline Follies introduced Felix the Cat, often considered the first animated movie star.
• The Steamboat Willie, featuring Mickey Mouse becomes the first cartoon with the sound printed on the film and is the first notable success for Walt Disney Studios, founded in Los Angeles in 1923.
• Walt Disney is the founder of the Walt Disney Company, which is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world.
• The Golden Age of American Animation was from 1930 to 1960.
• Merrie Melodies, Looney Tunes, and Merrie Melodies are the names of the cartoons produced by the Warner Bros. animation studio.
• Walt Disney releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first animated feature to use hand-drawn animation.
• Flintstones is the first animated series to be produced in color. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, the series was created by Joe Ruby and Bill Scott.
• The Yogi Bear Show, a spin-off of Huckleberry Hound was produced by Hanna-Barbera.
• The Adventures of Andre & Wally B was the first fully CGI-animated film, produced by The Graphics Group, the precursor to Pixar
• Big Hero 6 is the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters.
• Gertie the Dinosaur - The first cartoon to feature an appealing character.
• Framerate - is the number of consecutive images/frames that are displayed each second.
• Toy Story - is the first fully computer-animated feature film, was released