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Ancient egypt
Ancient egypt was found in 1600 the gyptian pharaoh ramses II built a temple to the goddess issis which had 110 collums, ingeniously, each column had a painted figure of the goddess in a progressively change position -
Magic lantern
The first project attempt on drawing on to a wall was made in 1640 athonasius kircher, kircher drew each igure on seprate pieaces of glass which he placedand used it on a wall. -
'The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects'
When an object is placed in our line of sight and then rapidly taken away, we actually see the object there for a fraction of a second longer then it is really there. If that first object were taken away and then replaced by a second object, the persistence of vision would actually blend the two images together to make a smooth transition. -
Phenakistoscope
The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle, as you spin the disc you can see the animation shape a drawing of a human moving or what ever that is drew on the papaers. -
Daedalum
The daedalum ''wheel of life'' appeared in america in 1867 and was sold as a toy. long strips of paper were inserted on a wheel the strip has many different pictures of a figure and then it spins it to create animation. -
Thaumatrope
in 1842 peter mark roget developed the thaumatrope, the thaumatrope is a cardboard disc mounted on top or held between two pieaces of string, when its spun it creates animation. -
Zoetrope
The zoetrope ''wheel of life'' appeared in america in 1867 and was sold as a toy. long strips of paper were inserted on a wheel the strip has many different pictures of a figure and then it spins it to create animation. -
The flipper book
In 1868 a novelty called 'the flipper book' appeared worldwide and it remained the simplest and most populare device, you get a flipping bookm,, draw on different pages of a person doing different things, and then you flip the book to see animation. -
animals in motion.
Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic gathering of animals in motion. -
The praxinoscope
Emile Renynaud, combining his earlier invention of the praxinoscope with a projector, opens the Theatre Optique in the Musee Grevin. It displays an animation of images painted on long strips of celluloid. -
Motion pictures
Thomas Edison started his research work into motion pictures. -
Kinetoscope
Thomas Edison announced his creation of the kinetoscope which projected a 50ft length of film in approximately 13 seconds. -
nitro-cellulose base.
George Eastman began the manufacture of photographic film strips using a nitro-cellulose base. -
The luimere brother
Louis and Augustine Lumiere issued a patent for a device called a cinematograph capable of projecting moving pictures. -
Vitascope
Thomas Armat designed the vitascope which projected the films of Thomas Edison. This machine had a major influence on all sub-sequent projectors. -
the enchanted drawing
combination of animation and film showing a man drawing a cartoon face on an easel. He draws a hat on the head and then a bottle of wine, a glass and a cigar. He then takes objects off the canvas and they go back into the image. -
Special effect
"visual effects" referring to digital post-production and "special effects" referring to on-set mechanical effects and in-camera optical effects. -
Flickering drawing
In 1906 flickering drawing was formed in new york newspapers cartoonist james stuart blackton teamed up with the inventer thomas edison, they created flickering drawing 3000 flickering drawings to make their first animation. -
Stop motion
J. Stuart Blackton made the first animated film which he called "Humorous phases of funny faces." His method was to draw comical faces on a blackboard and film them. He would stop the film, erase one face to draw another, and then film the newly drawn face. The Ôstop-motionÕ provided a starting effect as the facial expressions changed be fore the viewerÕs eyes. -
Fantasmagorie
Fantasmagorie is an 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional hand drawn animation and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. -
Little nemo
Winsor McCay produced an animation sequence using his comic strip character "Little Nemo." -
Gertie the dinosaur
Windsor mccay drew 'gertie the dinosaur' mccay used over 4000 drawings to bring gertie the dinosaur to life . -
Phenaskistiscope
The phenaskistiscope is made of two discs mounted on a shaft - the front disc has slits around the edge the rear discs has a sequence of drawing, align the drawings with the slits, look through the opening and as the discs revolve we have the illusion of motion. -
CG
Jurassic Park use of CG for realistic living creatures