History of Animation by Veracruz, Andrew Jared N.

Early Ways of Showing Motion

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:27:21 UTC

Early ways of showing motion from 50,000 BC to 1500 AD were important because they demonstrate how ancient societies conveyed ideas about movement.

Shahr-e Sukhteh

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:29:34 UTC

-Bronze Age Pottery Bowl

-Depicts a Goat leaping to snatch leaves from a tree

Vitruvian Man

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:31:43 UTC

-by Leonardo da Vinci

-This shows multiple angles implying movement.

Animation Before Film

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:37:02 UTC

-Before the advent of film, the trial of animation from 1600 to 1877 marked a period of experimentation and innovation. Artists and inventors explored techniques like magic lanterns, thaumatropes, and zoetropes to create illusions of movement. These early forms laid the groundwork for the development of animation as we know it today, blending artistry with technological ingenuity to captivate audiences through visual storytelling.

Magic Lantern

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:39:42 UTC

-An image projector that uses pictures on sheets of glass

-The first example of projected animation.

Thaumatrope

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:42:02 UTC

-A rotating mechanism with a different picture on each side

-When combined its the "persistence of vision".

Phenakitoscope

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:45:06 UTC

-It features spinning disks reflected in mirrors that made it seem like the pictures were moving

Zoetrope

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:46:42 UTC

-A hollow drum that housed images on long interchangeble strips that spin and made that images appear to move.

Flip-Book

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:48:54 UTC

-It's also known as the kineograph

-It reached a wide audience

Praxinoscope

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 12:53:07 UTC

-expanded on the zoetrope

-It uses multiple wheels to rotate images

-It's also the first prototype of the animated cartoon.

Silent Era

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:02:17 UTC

This era from 1900-1930 featured short animations with no dialogue, relying entirely on visuals and occasional sound effects or music. Cartoons of this era were considered, and designed as, moving comic strips. Some would even incorporate speech bubbles for dialogue, whilst others used narration stills as in the silent films of the time.

Popular Works

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:04:21 UTC

The Enchanted Drawing (1900)

By Stuart blackton

-This revolves around a drawing – namely Blackton drawing a face which then reacts to various things he does, using film-cutting/stop-motion techniques.

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:06:01 UTC

-By Stuart Blackton

-the first entirely animated film, once again using stop-motion photography to breathe life into characters drawn on a chalkboard.

Gertie the Dinosaur

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:07:16 UTC

-It is the earliest animated film to feature a dinosaur. McCay first used the film before live audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act

Felix the Cat

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:08:03 UTC

-Considered the first animated movie star. With regard to design, the ease of animating his simple black-and-white form was not lost on animators in other studios; most subsequent cartoon characters exhibit this simplicity.

Steamboat Willie

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:10:24 UTC

-The First cartoon with synchronized sound on picture, as well as one of the first cartoons to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack.

Golden Age of American Animation

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:13:49 UTC

-This was a period (1930–1950) of flourishing creativity and innovation.

-This era introduced feature-length animated films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and popularized color and synchronized sound, solidifying animation as a major entertainment medium in film and television.

Merrie Melodies

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:16:03 UTC

-Produced by Warner Brother Cartoons

-Featured cartoon character Bugs Bunny.

Snow White

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:19:16 UTC

-It is the first animated feature to use-hand-drawn animation.

-Took 1.5 Million Cels to create and 2 years.

American Television Era

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:21:18 UTC

This started in the late 1960s with the decline of theatrical animated shorts and popularization of television animation, reached its peak during the 1970s, and ended around the late 1980s.

Flintstones

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:23:03 UTC

-by Hanna Barbera

-its the First animated series on prime television.

Yogi Bear

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:25:36 UTC

-A Spin-off of Huckleberry Hound.

-Debuted on national tv.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:32:03 UTC

-by Walt Disney Productions

-The first full feature animated film Disney made using xerography.

Pink Phink

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:34:19 UTC

-This won the academy awards for the Best Short film.

-Features Pink panther

Fritz the Cat

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:37:21 UTC

-The first animated adult (~~X Rated~~) feature film.

Golden Era of CGI

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:39:51 UTC

This marked the transformation of computer-generated imagery from a novelty into a dominant force in film and animation during 1980-2018. Advances in technology enabled increasingly realistic visuals, with 3D animation emerging as a key tool for both visual effects and fully animated films.

Adventures of Andre & Wally B

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:43:16 UTC

-A short film, and the first fully CGI animated film.

-Created by the Graphics Group, the precursor to Pixar.

The Simpsons

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:46:08 UTC

-The longest running American sitcom

-The longest running animated program, surpassing Gunsmoke in 2009

-Also the longest running American scripted primetime tv series.

Toy Story

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:47:25 UTC

-The first fully computer-animated feature film.

Lord of the rings: The Two Towers

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:51:04 UTC

-Golumn was the 1st real characther that showed motion capture.

-The Two Towers pioneered certain aspects of motion capture, and it was largely responsible for the widespread adoption of the technology within the film industry.

Avatar

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:52:45 UTC

-by James Cameron

-Feautred real actors in completely computer generated worlds.

-CGI and Motion capture techniques blew audiences away.

Big Hero 6

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:55:18 UTC

-The first animated film to feature marvel comics characters

AR/VR & 360 Degree Animated Videos

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-16 13:58:12 UTC

-From 2018 - present and upcoming films.

-These technologies give users a chance to live and animate characters or actions in the system at any point in time and custom experiences allow the viewers to navigate the stage in all directions. With VR people get more into the story itself, in AR the animations are integrated into reality. 360-degree videos are becoming very useful as each user can create an entire scene. The novel and the forthcoming films and projects steer in the same direction of trying to acquire a viewer as deeply as it is possible and undertake some malignant transformations of animated storytelling into the future.

MEMBERS (WHO CONTRIBUTED)

andrewjaredveracruz — 2024-10-17 07:01:33 UTC

Veracruz

Ticzon

Rodriguez

Laz

Yupi

Martos