Animation Timeline

  • Fantasmagorie

    Considered as one of the oldest films of traditional animation. The film is about two main characters interacting with objects that can change shape.
  • Fleischer Studios

    They used a technique known as rotoscoping, or the process of using live action recording as sort of a reference for realistic movements.
  • Song Car-Tunes and Aesop's Sound Fables

    These shows used the Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The sound-on-film process is when a picture is recorded into a photographic film.
  • Mickey Mouse

    When Mickey Mouse came out became a phenomenon. The short film, Steamboat Willie, became famous, with Mickey singing while aboard a boat. Mickey would then become the most popular and famous cartoon character in history. This will also be important to the 1920s animations.
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White is the most infamous movie that used cell animation. Cell animation then later became a common technique for animation back then.
  • Limited animation

    In the 1950s, cartoons starting shifting towards children. This had issues of resource management, and eventually created a new technique called limited animation.
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians

    The production of this movie were helped restrained by the xerography process. This process helped eliminated the inking process.
  • Claymation

    Claymation has been around for a long time, but really started to take off at this time. This consists of using clay figures to create animation
  • Toy Story

    This movie was very influential to 3d animation of movies. It is remarked as one of the earliest 3d computer animated movies.
  • Avatar

    This is very important to movies because this movie is a live action, but with CGI. This basically means that there are fictional effects or models in the movie. however these are created by computer.