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The Phenakistocope used a spinning cardboard disc attached vertically to a handle
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The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across
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it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors
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The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures
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The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device
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The first commercial, public screening of cinematographic films happened in Paris on 28 December 1895
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In the traditional animation process, animators will begin by drawing sequences of animation on sheets of transparent paper perforated to fit the peg bars in their desks
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Steamboat Willie is especially notable for being the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound
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Experiments with colour films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908
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CAD software for mechanical design uses either vector-based graphics to depict the objects of traditional drafting
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Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the stop motion techniques used in traditional animation with 3D models and frame-by-frame animation