In simple terms, the animation is art-in-motion, something the human beings discovered as early as the Paleolithic age. Animation today is characterized by cartoon characters - in- motion, telling a story. The history of animation technology showcasing moving art pieces and images changed over the years - we are now in a world when computer and internet technology helps create some terrific animated videos enjoyed by diverse assemblage.
People realized very quickly that pictures taken of a moving object could be flipped through in succession, to create the illusion of a motion picture. Did you know that a year-old pottery depicted a moving goat through a series of images? Now take a look at the following image from an Egyptian mural showcasing a wrestling match through a series of images:. Could you guess that this mural is around years old?
Another mesmerizing art form that closely resembles animation became popular in 18th century France - it was called shadowgraphy. Stories were also being told with the help of the magic lantern invented by Christiaan Huygens in used to project moving images.
The Phenakistoscope was the first real animation device. The device was discovered by Joseph Plateau in the year It was the first device that could create a fluid illusion of animation. The early animation films were crude, made with devices that were relatively simple and primitive. His series of animated films included Pauvre Pierrot and Autour d'une cabine.
Each of his films contained frames painted images to last minutes. In the traditional animation history, hand-drawn animation was created using Cel Animation.
Cel was a transparent sheet consisting of cellulose nitrate and camphor, used to create hand-drawn objects. Characters were drawn on Cels and superimposed on common background images to reduce the number of frames and production times. Colonel Heeza Liar was the first animated cartoon series created using this animation technique.
The production house was John Bray studios. Take a look:. Another popular animated film that was produced around this time was Gertie, The Dinosaur , created by Winsor McCay in This film was made using techniques such as keyframe, registration marks, and animation loops and is sometimes known as the oldest cartoon film. Steamboat Willie was released in and it was the first animated film to include sound. Many consider this the first animated feature film but there were 7 films which were released before this.
However, this was the first one completely made using hand-drawn animation technique. The movie also marked the debut of the lovable Mickey Mouse. Following the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in , animated films became a popular form of entertainment. The stories and the characters started getting widely recognized and remembered by everyone, everywhere on the globe. Another animation technique that was commonly used in the traditional era was stop-motion animation.
You must have observed the jerks in the movement of objects within film sequences of the era. These are caused because the technique is used to create a perception of movement in the object. The animation industry has grown to become an absolute behemoth in the world of cinema. Only a century before 3D animation schools rose up to help people study the craft, there were pioneers out there trying to figure out how to get it started.
What was the first ever animation? That is a trickier question than it might appear, because it depends entirely on what is classified as an animation. Given that animation, at its heart, is simply the act of creating the illusion of movement through still images, you could argue that the craft began hundreds of thousands of years ago. The Victorians also figured out how to create moving stills to trick the eyes into thinking the image was animated:. Stop motion?
Animations that only featured a few frames? Each minute of an animated film, on the other hand, required at least nine hundred and sixty precisely sequenced drawings. And the finished movies, despite how labor-intensive they were, looked simple: line drawings on spare backgrounds.
Early animators responded to this problem by choosing to display the exacting process itself. He sweats under the pressure, enduring several mishaps. Gertie, a lumbering and amiable beast, emerges from a cave. When Gertie grabs a woolly mammoth 9 by the tail and flings it into a lake, McCay exploits that blank space and shrinks the mammoth to minuscule size as it vanishes comedically far into the distance.
The first generation of animators often conjured up fictitious interactions with their hand-drawn characters. In , the producer J. Bray and the animator Earl Hurd began patenting the process known as cel animation, which was a crucial step in the industrialization of the art form. Bray also set up a studio to produce cartoons quickly, for wide distribution.
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