History of Animation

  • Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

    Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
    the first animation recorded on standard picture film. Humorous Phases begins with an artist drawing portraits on a blackboard in chalk, before they begin to animate and interact with each other. Created by Stuart Blackton.
  • Steamboat Willie

    Steamboat Willie
    The first animated film to both popularise Mickey and to be fully scored.
  • Flowers and Trees

    Flowers and Trees
    The first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Short. Part of Disneys Silly Symphony Series. It was the first film filmed in technicolor.
  • The Flinstones

    The Flinstones
    This was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. It was the first ever prime-time animated show. It had multiple achievements.
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Mark Twain
    The first ever stop claymation animated film. It was a Will Vinton production.
  • Toy Story

    Toy Story
    This was first entirely computer generated feature film. It had full model articulation and motion-control coding to bring Andy’s toys to life. And it was the first animated film nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay.
  • Avatar

    Avatar
    Avatar blew audiences away with its advanced CGI and motion capture techniques, bringing the lush, alien world of Pandora to life in both 2 and 3 dimensions.
  • ParaNorman

    ParaNorman
    ParaNorman by studio LAIKA represents some of the most advanced stop-motion and modeling techniques in animation to date. Over 250 faces were used for one character to create a single shot only 27 sec long