Emile Renaud (1892)
Emile was a French inventor who was responsible for the first animated cartoon. He invented the Praxinoscope and then used it to project his first animated film to a public audience in 1892.
George Melies (1902)
George was a french illusionist and film maker and was famous for his films in the early stages of cinema. Through special features he was the first one to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves and hand-painted colour in his films. He made the film 'A Trip To The Moon' in 1902.
Emile Cohl (1908)
Emile was a french cartoonist and animator and he is known for the first hand drawn animation. The animation was drawn on paper but from the film it looks like it was made on a blackboard, this effect comes from shooting the 700 drawings on to negative film.
Winsor McCay (1914)
Winsor was a American cartoonist who created a hand drawn animation called Gertie the Dinosaur and at the end of the animation Winsor would walk behind the projector screen create the illusion where he would climb on the cartoon dinosaur and ride it off the screen. This was the first example of crossing real life footage with animated footage.
Walt Disney (1928)
5 years before, Disney started their studio in Los Angeles and Steam Boat Willie was their first major breakthrough in the animation Industry. This was also the first appearance of Disney's iconic character Mickey Mouse.
Walt Disney (1937)
Disney's first hand drawn feature length movie Snow White was the first animation that became a full length movie.
Robert Zemeckis (1988)
Robert directed the first movie to ever feature animation and real life footage together throughout the whole of the movie. The movie was called Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?
Nick Park (1989)
Nick created a great example of a stop motion short movie made out of clay called Wallace and Gromit.
Pixar (1995)
Pixar was one of the first companies to create a full length animated movies that used CGI and was 3D.
What I have Learnt About Animation?
Animation can be presented in a number of ways:
Paper animation
Objects drawn on or are cut out using paper are then photographed so the pictures can be put in subsequent order to be played as an animation.
https://youtu.be/Hpc2E5GAupI
Claymation
This is very similar to paper animation. Objects and characters are made out of clay and then are photographed so the pictures can again be put in subsequent order to be played as an animation.
https://youtu.be/2igRcGxlshA
2D Digital Animation
This is specifically 2 dimensional animation that is drawn and animated using a computer.
https://youtu.be/P2wzXdGpn_E
3D Digital Animation
This is specifically 3 dimensional animation that is drawn and animated using a computer.
https://youtu.be/Jxne_q5VVqQ
