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Animated movies are part of ancient traditions in storytelling, visual arts and theatre. Popular techniques with moving images before film include shadow play, mechanical slides, and mobile projectors in magic lantern shows (especially phantasmagoria). Techniques with fanciful three-dimensional moving figures include masks and costumes ...
For the history of animation after the development of celluloid film, see history of animation. The early history of animation covers the period up to 1888, when celluloid film base was developed, a technology that would become the foundation for over a century of film. Humans have probably attempted to depict motion long before the development ...
Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Plane Crazy, one of the earliest golden-age shorts.. The golden age of American animation was a period in the history of U.S. animation that began with the popularization of sound synchronized cartoons in 1928 and gradually ended in the 1960s when theatrical animated shorts started to lose popularity to the newer medium of television.
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animation has been recognized as an artistic medium, specifically within the entertainment industry.
1954 – Animal Farm, Tasmanian Devil. 1956 - The Twelve Months; Toei Animation is founded. 1957 – Let's All Go to the Lobby, The Snow Queen, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin; Hanna-Barbera is founded, followed by the first broadcast of its first show, The Ruff and Reddy Show, The Woody Woodpecker Show.
Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation, until the final few years of the 20th century, when there was a shift to computer animation in the industry, specifically 3D computer animation.
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. List of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Animal Locomotion. Animation music. The Animator's Survival Kit. Annie Awards.