FMP Research

The Journey of Animation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBmzDh6CQZw

- 40.000 BC cave paintings - Used to describe stories showing movement over several images on the sides of caves

- Egyptian mural paintings/carvings

-Leonardo Da Vinci

- Magic Lantern 'Laterna Magica' - 17th Century - No-one knows the original creator but the widely accepted creator is Christian Higgens in the late 1650's

- Improved in 19th Century by using several of them on one sheet of fabric to make mutiple images change in size - Phantasmagoria

- Thaumatrope - 1824 - Two images spun on double sided circular paper

- Phenakistoscope - Joseph Plateau - Slots to see through circle, mirrored image, spin to see the illusion of moving images

- Zoetrope - 1834 William George Horner

- Flip Book - 1868 - 'Kineograph' meaning moving pictures - Primitive but cost to modern form of animation - much smoother than earlier 

- Eadweard Muybridge - 'Father of Motion Picture' - Horse in Motion - 1882

- J.Stuart Blackton - 1900 - Enchanted Drawing

                               - 1906 - Humorous Phases of Funny Faces'

Emile Cohl - 1908 - Fantasmagorie

1914 - Winsor McCay - Gertie The Dinosaur 

1920 to 1950 - Golden Era of Animation

1920 - Thomas The Cat

         - SteamBoat Willie - Mickey Mouse's first appearance for Disney

1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 

1950 to 1958 - The Televison Era

2000+ - Millenium Era - Computer Generated Imagery ''CGI'' advanced Animation massively

1995 - Toy Story - First full length CGI film