Animation history

  • Phenakistocope

    Phenakistocope
    The Phenakistocope used a spinning cardboard disc attached vertically to a handle
  • zoetrope

    zoetrope
    The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across
  • Praxinoscope

    Praxinoscope
    it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors
  • Zoopraxiscope

    Zoopraxiscope
    The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures
  • Kineoscope

    Kineoscope
    The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device
  • Cinematograph

    Cinematograph
    The first commercial, public screening of cinematographic films happened in Paris on 28 December 1895
  • Translucent paper

    Translucent paper
    In the traditional animation process, animators will begin by drawing sequences of animation on sheets of transparent paper perforated to fit the peg bars in their desks
  • Sound in animation

    Sound in animation
    Steamboat Willie is especially notable for being the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound
  • Standardisation of film 24 fps

    Standardisation of film 24 fps
    Experiments with colour films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908
  • Computer drawing software

    Computer drawing software
    CAD software for mechanical design uses either vector-based graphics to depict the objects of traditional drafting
  • CGI animation

    CGI animation
    Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the stop motion techniques used in traditional animation with 3D models and frame-by-frame animation