History on animation

History of animation

The first sign of animation dates back to paleolithic times discovered by a Greek astronomer called Ptolemy in 130AD. The first drawings were found as cave men drawings on the walls which showed different positions of the animals. So they were trying to recreate the motion of the animal.

Then a Chinese man made an animation device which was called a zoetrope. There was also other devices which were called Phenakistoscope, praxinoscope and the flip book and all made in the 1800s. The flip book is made up of sequential drawings, this means that when you flip it, it makes an animation.

The first animated short film was made by someone called J. Stuart Blackton it was called “humorous phases of funny faces”.

In 1910 a woman called Emilie Cohl was the first person to make an animation out of paper cut outs. In 1913 the development of celluloid made it easier to make animations.

Walt Disney's first animation was Steamboat Willie which was the first animation ever to have sound. Then they went on to make a full length film called snow white.

To watch Steamboat Willie click on link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4

Todays DateIn todays society animation is bigger and popular than ever before. As you have the main companies such as Walt Disney and Disney Pixar which have produced an astounding amount of animations in the past 10 years these include Frozen, Monsters Ink, Cars and the most famous, Mickey Mouse.

Some of these animations have been made in HD even 3D which has changes the way animation has been made, to when it originally started which was in black and white and the picture wasn’t very clear.