history of animation
timeline
- 1824
- Peter Mark Roget publishes "Persistence of Vision with
regard to Moving Objects." - 1832-90
- Joseph Plateau (a Belgian scientist) developed the phenakistiscope.
Age of early Victorian Cinema machines.
- Joseph Plateau (a Belgian scientist) developed the phenakistiscope.
- Emile Reynaud (from France) patents the praxinoscope ..
a device that used mirrors to project a sequence of images
(along with a fixed background) onto a screen. It was sufficiently
complex that only he could run it. The infinite length tape changed
the medium from a curiosity into entertainment. - The age of movie camera and projector begins
- 1908
- 1914
- 1915-17
- John Bray patents the use of clear cels over a background and rotoscoping
(developed by Max Fleischer)
- John Bray patents the use of clear cels over a background and rotoscoping
- 1919
- "Out of the Ink Well" "Koko the Clown" (Max Fleischer)
- 1920's
- 1928
- Walt Disney releases "Steamboat Willie"
- 1930
- Oskar Fischinger, Visual Music, Fantasia
- 1930's
- Fleischer Studios Betty Boop and Popeye
- 1930's
- Warner Bros .. Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones
- 1937
- Snow White, Disney Studios
- 1940's
- Walter Lantz and Woody Woodpecker, Paul Terry and Mighty Mouse, MGM w/ Tom & Jerry (animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera)
- 1982
- Tron, movie with CG premise
- 1987
- John Lasseter at Pixar publishes a paper describing traditional animation principles. "Demos" are Andre and Wally B and Luxo Jr. Ref: J. Lasseter, "Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation", Computer Graphics, 21(4), July 1987. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
- 1993
- Jurassic Park use of CG for realistic living creatures
- 1995
- Toy Story first full-length 3D CG feature film