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Peter Mark Roget
Who:Peter Mark Roget
What: had developed the idea of "Persistence of Vision" this thought was that multiple, different images can blend together and be portrayed as a single image to the human eye.
Where: London
Why:This was important because it was the theory, or the very first building block, that other people ideas on animation and they were able to build off this and further the development of animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcdC2nwQi7I -
Phenakistiscope is invented
Who: Joseph Plateau invited the "Phenakistiscope"
What: which is a device, developed off of Peter Mark's Persistence of Vision theory, that helped create a "illusion of motion" by spinning disk at a certain speed making all the images seem to blend together, tricking the human eye.
Where: France
Why: This was the device that other inventors were able to build off of in order to get to were we were today it also proved Peter's thhttpseory. ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4B3FHHt_k8 -
The Enchanted Drawing
What? The Enchanted drawing was a silent film that was the first know evidence of animated sequences using stop motion.
Who? James Stuart Blackton
Where? United States
Why? This is important to animation because it was the first jab at an "animated" film. Other directors and creators were able to build off of this silent film and use it as a stepping stone for the many more films to come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HczGiAoeLGw -
Fantasmagorie
Who: Emile Cohl
What: One of the earliest examples of a "traditional animation" (handdrawn) Emile's film contained two stick figure like men, a clown and a normal citizen, walking around and changing different objects into new objects .
Where: France
Why: This contains one of the earliest forms of animation, meaning it was very unorganized and not precise. This is needed because it helps developers want to strive to do better and create new methods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAObel8yIE -
Gertie the Trained Dinosaur
Who: Winsor McCay
What: This is one of americas first animators most popular films that used over 1000 drawings about a dinosaur who did tricks when told to by his master.
Where: United States
Why: It set the standards higher for other animators, making them strive for longer films (Gertie running at 12 minutes long) and better cleaner drawings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmVra1mW7LU -
Founding of "The Walt Disney Company"
Who: Walt and Roy Disney
What: After "Alice in Wonderland", Walt was suffering from major debt so he decided to join his brother in hollywood.Thus Margaret J. Winkler formed a partnership with the brothers. giving them the financial and emotional support to create the studios.
Where: California, United states
Why: Disney studios still makes animation films today and is the reason animation really took off in the 1900's due to popularity of his films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM7FtFWHQEE -
Steamboat Willy
Who: Roy and Walt Disney
What: Steamboat willy was the first Animated film to contain sound such as jazz music and character sound. This also was the third film to feature Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
Where: California, United States
Why: This helped introduce the world's MOST popular characters influencing people everywhere. As well as showed other animators it was possible to add sounds to these types of films and make them take this step as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4 -
Scanimate Invented
Who: John Whitney
What: John created the very first analog computer, now know as Scanimate, that allowed him to make computer animations.
Where: United States
Why: This computer allowed any kind of computer animation to be done. Without this device animators today would still be hand drawing cartoons instead of using cgi or computer graphics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbV7loKp69s -
Computer Animation of Faces
Who: Frederic Parke
What: While doing a funded project Fredric was able to create the very first computer animated face using older software techniques that have been modified over the years since.
Where: University of Utah, United States
Why: This was the first step into the direction of people cgi and computer animation that will later on be used in many films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMFhcC4SvQ -
Jurassic Park
Who: Steve Spielberg (Universal Pictures)
What: this film was the first film to incorporate CG graphics into living creatures, without relying on any models.
Where: Hollywood, California
Why: This showed animators that you could rely on computer graphics to create an breathing animal. Showing that it is possible to do an entire movie out of CG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rlr3Lzvqog -
Toy Story
Who: John Lasster (Walt Disney Pictures)
What: Toy story is the first full length computer animated film in history in history about the life of a child's toy.
Where: California, United States
Why: Most of our cartoons in present day are built off of this film due to its transition computer animation from drawing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VdERcRJ3jI -
