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How have new technologies

and new techniques had an

effect on the development ofanimation?

By molly strike


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Animation Releases

Gertie the Dinosaur September the 14th 1914

Steamboat Willie November the 18th 1928

Snow White - February 4, 1938

The Flintstones September the 30th 1960

Toy Story 1 November the 22nd 1995

Salad Fingers August the 20th 2004

Charlie the Unicorn April the 30th

2006


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Timeline of key

moments in the history

of animationtechnology and

techniques.


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It all started off in 18,000BC when the Historians drew Cave paintings on walls. Forthousands of years these people have been trying to show movement in their art. Theybelieved that these images were made to look like they were moving by the flickeringshadows cast on them from the fires. It was in 7,000BC when In China shadows ofpuppets were projected onto parchment paper. This effect of the puppet shadowsprojected onto parchment paper has developed into an art form in eastern countries,mostly in India.

Here is a cavepainting of a horse,that has been draw toappear like it ismoving.

This photo showswhat puppets lookedlike when projectedonto parchmentpaper.


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Animation officially started off in the early 1830s with the phenakistiscope, which was

a spinning wheel with slots in and the Zoetrope which was a cylinder with slits cut

vertically in the sides and a band of individual frames from video/ film on images

beneath the slits. This was an early animation device that used the persistence of

vision to create an illusion of motion.

This is a phenakistiscope This is a Zoetrope


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Next was the flip book which was created In the 1860s. The first flip book was produced

in this year. The flip book relies on persistence of vision to create a continuous motion

illusion. The flip book contains a series of images, that when flipping the book they

appear to be moving, when really they are not moving, it is just an illusion.

This here is what flip books look like.


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In 1895 a man named William Harbutt invented plasticine. Plasticine is used for a lot

of model animation nowadays. Plasticine is appealing to its animators because it is

very easy to create a character. It is flexible enough to allow the character you are

making to move in many ways, it is also very dense, so it can retain its shape easily.

One of plastiticines main users is Nick Park who works with Aardman Animation's'.

He uses plasticine to model he characters in his short films, such as Wallace and

Gromit. Wallace and Gromit is a very famous animation. Wallace and Gromit are the

main characters in a series of short animated films made by Nick Park who works

with Aardman Animations. All the characters that are made for these short films are

molded with Plasticine.

This is William Harbutt


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It was in 1928 when animation started to become much more popular. Walt Disney's

Mickey Mouse made his first appearance as a character on an animated cartoon

programme called 'Steamboat Willie', which was released November the 18th 1928.

This was the first cartoon with synchronized sound. Synchronized sound is where the

sound in the film is in time with what we see on the screen. Before we had

synchronized sound, cartoons were either silent or just had a music as the sound

(often with live musicians playing). This was the first successful animated film by the

Disney Film Company. Steamboat Willie Used sound


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On February the 4th 1938 the first Colour animated film 'Snow White was produced

by Walt Disney. It became the first full-length animated feature film in colour. Snow

white has become a very successful film, it is one of the most seen Walt Disney films.


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On November the 14th 1989, Walt Disney Little Mermaid was released. Cell

animation was used a lot in the little mermaid. Cell animation is images painted on

transparent sheets of plastic (these are the "cells"). We use this because for example

you could have one character that would be animated, while the background /other

characters are left non-moving , without needing to repaint anything but the moving

parts of the image. This type of animation is more time-saving because the animators

dont have to re-draw/paint much of there animation.


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On November the 22nd 1995 , Walt Disney Released Toy Story 1. It was Pixars first

feature film as well as the first ever full length all computer generated animated film

(CGI). CGI stands for computer generated Image. Toy Story was a very successful

Walt Disney Pixar film. It is one of the most watched Pixar Films in the world, also 2

more Toy Storys have been made carrying on from the last story line


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Top cat was developed by Disney and Hanna Barbera Company, it was releasedon September the 27th 1961.

Limited Animation was used for topcat. Limited Animation is when you have aprocess of cartoon images and you repeat the artwork by using different cycles,these are the cyclic repeat and an oscillate cycle. The cyclic reapt artwork is

used in the order 1,2,3,4, it is then followed by the exact order again 1,2,3,4. Aoscillate artwork order is 1,2,3,4 but then the order reverses 4,3,2,1. Limitedanimation means a process of making animated cartoons that do not redrawentire frames but reuse common parts between frames. Some more examplesof limited animation are , the old version of Scooby doo and Yogi bear, TheseLimited animations were first developed by Disney and Hanna Barberacompany, the limited animations are used because they save time and moneythen any other animation.


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Youtube.com is an online video site, for people to upload videos of them self doing

anything, or for people to upload videos of there work such as them singing there

own original song, or an animation they have made and much, much more. Many un-

famous animators use YouTube to upload there work for the world to see. Such as

the creator of Charlie the unicorn Jason Steele. This animation Charlie the unicorn

has become very successful, and more and more people are watching it everyday.

When Jason uploaded this video no one had heard or seen any of his work, but now

he is a famous YouTube animator, who has also made many other animations that

are on YouTube. YouTube opens are opportunities for animators because, when

people start to view your animation and you start getting lots of good comments, lots

of subscribers and stars you start to make more, and more and more people start to

watch them and you become like a Famous star on YouTube.


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