Animation

Definition:Animation is an art form which, in its modern appearance, appeared alongside the development of film. Earlier attempts at making drawings move were experimental.

Evidence of artistic interest in depicting figures in motion was seen as early as the still drawings of Paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple sets of legs in superimposed positions, showing the attempt to convey the perception of motion.  

                                         

First short film in the late 1800s was Charles-Emile Reynaud who created an experimental animation system called praxinoscope and began screening shorts in 1892. J. Stuart Blackton's Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) was the first animation on standard film.

 

Feature Length (1917) by Quirino Cristiani was the first animated feature length film. It used cardboard cut outs in the style of political cartoons. Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was the first cel-animated ("traditional animation") feature length film.

Film showing images from a 5,200-year old bowl from an ancient burial site in Iran.

 

From: http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/worlds-oldest-animation-5200-years-old/

Early types

• Zoetrope (180 AD; 1834)          
• The magic lantern
• Thaumatrope (1824)            
• Phenakistoscope (1831)
• Flip book (1868)
• Praxinoscope (1877)

 Presant types

• Stop motion
• CGI animation

• Clay animation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable" — made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay.

  
  

  

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