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Lecture and essay - Peter Roget
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Thaumatropes was invented in 1826 by Dr. John Ayrton. Thaumatropes simply of a disc with two pieces of string attached to it, on each pieces theres a drawing.
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The phenakistiscope was developed. Many variations on these and other optical toys developed in this period. The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Around the disc's center was a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it was a series of equally spaced radial slits.
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Created in China in 180 AD by an inventor called Ting Huan. His device hung over a lamp and was called chao hua chich kuan. When the device was spun at the right speed, pictures painted on panels would appear to move.
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The zoetrope was invented in 1834 by William Horner. The way zeotrope is processed by picture drawn on a strip which could be set around the bottom third of a metal drum, with the slts now cut in the upper section of the drum. When the you look through the slits you would see the a moving image
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Development of the flip book which led to a coin machine 'viewer' based on a series of photographs being flipped by turning a handle.
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Emile Raynaud developed the praxinoscope which was the successor of the zoetrope. This was a spinning drum but one in which viewers saw moving images in a series of mirrors rather than through slots.
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In 1892 the héâtre Optique was a moving picture show was inbested by Charles-Émile Reynaud. it was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience, predating Auguste and Louis Lumière's first public performance by three years. Each of theses
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In 1895 the Vitascope was an early film projector was first demonstrated by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.
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William Harbutt invented plasticine. This is used for model animation, now made famous by Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run.
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Arthur Melbourne-Cooper produced an animated commercial for Bird's Custard powder
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J Stuart Blackton - Cited as first true animator
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In Fantasmagorie was French animated film which was inventeded by Émile Cohl. It was on of the first hand-drawn animation and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon.
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Windsor McCay, a pioneer animator produced the first proper animated film for cinema entertainment called Gertie the Dinosaur. This was a silent film in black and white.
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in 1914 gertie the dinosaur winsor mccay produced a cartoon called "Gertie".
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Direct Animation is a technique that is done by scratching straight onto film stock. Creating animations this way gives the drawrings a distressed look
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Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard.
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Live Action Examples of live action animation include Koko The Clown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Space Jam (1996) and Osmosis Jones (2001).
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Flash is currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems, as the result of their 2005 purchase of Macromedia.Adobe flash is used to create animation on the system such as computer. It allows the user to add effects which makes the animation looks creative and also it allows the user to use in different sources