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  the first flipbook animation was created bu Joseph Plateau.
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  This was the first stop motion movie ever made, complete with figures and meticulous movement. It was about the movement of circus acrobats.
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  The first hand-drawn animated film ever was produced by the Gaumont company in Paris.
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  Animator Max Fleischer first used rotoscoping in his animated series "Out of the Inkwell". Back then it was only known as the Fleicher process, exclusive to only him.
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  The first celluloid animation made with synchronized sound.
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  In an animated film "The Old Mill", the multiplane camera was first used to create an illusion of depth to make it look more realistic.
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  The first video game ever made, featuring two-dimensional black and white animation and released on Atari.
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  This was the first video game to create real time fighting by using 3d Mocap technology. This encouraged other video game companies to use mobcap in their work
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  Toy story was the first 3D computer animated feature-length film released.
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  Avatar is the first mainstream live-action movie to be made fully in stereoscopic 3-D (S3-D).