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The Invention of Animation
The first animated projection was made in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud, who was a French science teacher. On 28 October 1892, he showed the first animation in public, Pauvre Pierrot, at the Musée Grévin in Paris. -
The First Form of Animation
The first form of animation was drawing directly on one strip of paper and moving it across. This was also on the animation titled, Pauvre Pierrot, shown in France at the Musee Grevin in Paris. -
The Father of Animation
American animation owes its start to J. Stuart Blackton, a British filmmaker who created the first animated film in America. Before creating cartoons, Blackton was a vaudeville performer known as "The Komikal Kartoonist." In his act, he drew "lightning sketches" or high-speed drawings. -
The inventor of Cel Animation
John Randolph Bray, along with animator Earl Hurd, created the cel animation process that dominated the animation industry for the rest of the decade. -
The Creation of The 12 Principles of Animation
In this book, Johnston and Thomas examine the work of leading Disney animators from the 1930s and onwards, and boil their approach down to 12 basic principles of animation.
1. Squash and Stretch
2. Anticipation
3. Staging
4. Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose
5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action
6. Slow In and Slow Out
7. Arc
8. Secondary Action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid drawing
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First Computer Animation
A Brazilian CGI animated feature film produced and released by NDR Filmes in Brazil on April 1, 1996. First CGI feature-length animation that did not use scanned models for heads.
