animation seminar 1 notes
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Animation (Lecture/Seminar 1)
25 September 2012
History of Animation
‘animation is arguarbly the most important creative form of the 21st century… it is omnipresent form of the modern era’
- Paul Wells
The magic lantern (c. 1650) – the predecessor of the modern day animationThe lantern was used to produce a different image, to produce a sense of movement.
Thaumatrope (1824) – the theory that the eye can perceive motion through a series of layered images
A phenakistoscope (1829 – 32) - Joseph Plateau
Stroboscope (1830-33)
Zoetrope (1833)
Flipbook (1886)
Praxinoscope (1877)
Zoopraxiscope (1879) – Research ‘Muybridge‘. Inspiration for Thomas Edison
Theatre Optique system (1892) – earliest known example of projected animation
Kinetoscope (1892)
First animation (1908) – Emile Cohl
Gertie the dinausaur (191$)
Cel animation (1914)
Rotoscoping (1915)
Steamboat Willie (1928) first synchronized animation
Look at animation during WW1 – Max Fleischer
Flowers and Trees (1932) – first animation in ‘three-strip-technicolour’
Stop Motion – The New Gulliver (1935)
Watch ‘AKIRA’
Hayao Miyazaki (1941)
Oskar Fischinger (1900-67)
Len Lye (1901-80)
Norman McLaren (1914-87)