Animation Timeline
- 1824: Peter Roget presented his paper 'The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects' to the British Royal Society.
- 1831: Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows; behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed, the synchronization of the windows with the images created an animated effect.
- 1889: Thomas Edison announced his creation of the kinetoscope which projected a 50ft length of film in approximately 13 seconds.
- 1906: J. Stuart Blackton made the first animated film which he called "Humorous phases of funny faces." His method was to draw comical faces on a blackboard and film them. He would stop the film, erase one face to draw another, and then film the newly drawn face. The Ôstop-motionÕ provided a starting effect as the facial expressions changed be fore the viewerÕs eyes.
- 1911: Winsor McCay produced an animation sequence using his comic strip character "Little Nemo."
- 1914: Winsor McCay produced a cartoon called "Gertie, The Trained Dinosaur" which amazingly consisted of 10,000 drawings.
- 1928: Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound called "Steam Boat Willy".
- 1937: Walt Disney’s snow white is released.
- 1989: Wallace and gromit was first broadcast.
- 1993: Jurassic Park use of CG for realistic living creatures.
- 1995: Toy Story first full-length 3D CG feature film.
- 2005: corpse bride is released.
- 2009 fantastic Mr Fox is released.
- 2010 despicable me is released.
- 2011 Arthur Christmas is released.
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