History of Animation

This is what makes animation possible. It's the eye's ability to retain an image for roughly 1/20 of a second after the object is gone.

• Pupil Dilation

• Frame Sequence

• Persistence of Vision

• Rule of Thirds

This was the first main stream motion picture to use Computer Generated Images (CGI):

• The original Star Wars (1977)

• The Last Star Fighter (1984)

• Avatar (2009)

• Tron (1982)

This invention was the very first step in the development of animation:

• The invention of the thaumtrope

• The creation of flip books

• The development of Stop Motion

• The invention of film

Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" was significant because...

• It was the first cartoon ever made.

• It was the first cartoon to feature sound.

• It was the first color cartoon.

• It was the first cartoon Disney made.

This was an expensive toy in the 1860's that actually played animation. It was a cylinder with slits in it that one would look through to view animation.

• Kaleidoscope

• Claymation

• Nickelodeon

• Zoetrope

This was the first ever entirely computer animated motion picture:

• Monsters Inc.

• Shrek

• Avatar

• Toy Story

Paper becoming more available to people led to the creation of...

• flip books

• cartoons

• stop motion

• zoetropes

This was the first animated motion picture ever made:

• Fantasia

• Gertie the Dinosaur

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

• A Twist of Fate

A Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, and Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer are good examples of this form of animation:

• Stop Motion

• CGI

• Cartooning

• Key Framing

"Gertie the Dinosaur" is significant because...

• It launched claymation

• It was the first popular flip book

• It was the first CGI

• It was the first character based cartoon.