Animation Timeline

  • Flip Book Animation

    Flip Book Animation
    The Flip Book Animation was a series of pictures that had different pictures on each page, so when you would flip the pages at a fast, rapid paste, the pictures would simulate a motion of something moving.
    This discovery was made by John Barnes Linett on September 1st, 1868, he patented his discovery under the name kineograph.
  • Louis Le Prince & One of the first Motion Picture Film Cameras Made

    Louis Le Prince & One of the first Motion Picture Film Cameras Made
    Although the date of the first movie camera in unknown the one made by Louis Le Prince was definitely one of the first. He used a single lens camera and Eastman’s paper film. He was not a granted a patent for his single lens camera due to an interfering patent. he was granted a patent for his 16 lens camera that combined a Motion picture camera with a projector lnfolnfo.
  • Stopmotion Animation

    Stopmotion Animation
    Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton were the first people to use stop motion animation in 1898 when they created The Humpty Dumpty Circus.
  • First Animated Film

    First Animated Film
    Emile Cohl Releases Fantasmagorie
    This film was released in 1908 and was considered one of the first fully animated films ever made.
    it was made using 700 drawings and had a running time of only 2 minutes(actual date unknown)
  • Mickey Mouse is introduced

    Mickey Mouse is introduced
    Mickey Mouse was introduced and voiced by Walt Disney in 1928 after he lost character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Mickey’s first debut was in Plane Crazy. The first Mickey cartoon with sound was steamboat Willie.
  • Max Fleischer And Out Of The Inkwell

    Max Fleischer And Out Of The Inkwell
    was a major animated series of the silent era produced by Max Fleischer from 1918 to 1929.
    The series was the result of three short experimental films that Max Fleischer independently produced in the period of 1914–1916 to demonstrate his invention, the rotoscope, which was a device consisting of a film projector and easel used as an aid for achieving realistic movement for animated cartoons.
  • Tom and Jerry

    Tom and Jerry
    Tom & Jerry were first introduced in 1931 by Van Beuren in a short film called Wot a Night, lasting 8 minutes and 19 seconds. the series only lasted two years. In 1940, Joseph Barbrea and William Hanna re-created the series using a cat and a mouse
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    in 1937 snow white and the seven dwarfs became the first full-length animation movie.it was also the first produced in full color and the first to be produced by Walt Disney.
  • Elbert Tuganove Founds Puppet Animation Division

    Elbert Tuganove Founds Puppet Animation Division
    After his staff grew to 20, it was decided that puppets would make their way into his studio.
    He made a number of films for both adults and children.
    First puppet animation on film.
  • FutureSplash Animator is developed.

    FutureSplash Animator is developed.
    Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash, formerly FutureSplash Animator) is the software we primarily use in the Animation course. The product was Released as FutureSplash Animator in May 1996. In December 1996, Macromedia brought FutureWave, and FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0. Macromedia Flash later (2005) became adobe flash.