animation over the years

By jeffjeff
  • 350

    350 bc

    Aristotle describes image projection in terms of the camera obscura.
  • Jan 1, 600

    600 bc

    Mesopotamia's predominant art form of bas-relief sculpture. These elaborate wall carvings depict scene after scene of the king's military exploits. An early form of storyboardin
  • Jan 1, 1250

    1250 bc

    even befor moving pictures was invented animation still existed
  • Jan 1, 1250

    1250 AD

    Leon Battista Alberti invents the forerunner of the camera obscura.
  • Jan 1, 1350

    1350 AD

    The beginning of the legend of Robin Hood.
  • Jan 1, 1517

    1517 AD

    Coffee made from South American beans is drunk in Europe for the first time. When it is eventually exported to North America it helps to drive the animation industry further into the nights.
  • Jan 1, 1565

    1565 AD

    The first pencil with graphite lead and a wooden cover is designed in Switzerland.

  • 1637 AD

    Galileo Galilei, a brilliant Italian matematician, astronomer and physicist, discovers how the pendulum works. The pendulum swing is one of the primary animation assignments in most animation schools today.

  • 1752 AD

    Benjamin Franklin announces his most important invention, the lightning conductor, which proves the existance of electricity, which we now use to power our animation light tables and electric pencil sharpeners, by golly!

  • 1774 AD

    The 1st newspaper cartoon. In his Pennsylvainia Gazette, Ben Franklin prints a drawing of a segmented snake representing the colonies, with the caption: “Join or Die”.

  • 1832 AD

    Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801-1883) invents the phenakistoscope ("spindle viewer") (also called a fantoscope or phantasmascope). A large disc with a series of drawings around the circumference is attached on a spindle to another disc made of metal with slots in it. Both are made to rotate. When the drawings are viewed through the slots in the metal disc they appear to move

  • 1841 AD

    Punch Magazine, a magazine that featured satirical articles and cartoons makes it"s debut. The magazine quickly gains a reputation as "a defender of the oppressed and a radical scorge of all authority." with it"s viciousl ridicule politicians and business men who exploited poor. Punch Magazine is obviously a forerunner to some of todays humor magazines like Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, & Spy.

  • 1868 AD

    The Kineograph is invented A.K.A. The “Flipbook” It is used as giveaway advertisements and merchandise bonuses.