Animation History Cartoon Life

 Referring to the Cambridge Dictionary, the word “animation” carries the meaning of “moving images created from drawing, models that are photographed or created by a computer.”

The moving clips of the picture tell the audiences about a certain story which is interesting for them.

Animation: Humans Great Invention

Every human is born with different gifts.

Human has a limitless brain to invent, make, and create anything. Our world nowadays is decorated with humans’ effort and creativity.

This issue also goes with the technological advances in these decades.

One of the great examples of the advance of technology and humans’ creativity is cartoon animation.

In America, the father of animation was James Stuart Blackton. The advance of technology has brought the animation industry to develop fast.

But before this great invention, you ought to see how long the journey of cartoon animation really is!

Let’s jump to the ancient time of cartoons. 

Breakthrough Animation Types and Histories

There are at least six common types of animation that exist in this world. Those are:

Simple Animation

Traditional Animation

2D Animation

Motion Graphics

Stop Motion

3D Motion

Now, it’s time to break them down…

Simple Animation

Back in the 1800s, the form of animation is just simply formed of animated pictures that created to bring up illusion or Motion.

There are some types of simple animation that exist. In this session, we are going to discuss three examples which are Phenakistoscope, Zoetrope, and flipbook.

Phenakistoscope

It was invented in 1832 by Joseph Plateau.

It consists of 2 layers of disks attached to a handle. One small disk consisted of slots around the edge, and the bigger disk consisted of the successive drawings that are connected to one another.

To make the illusion happens, we simply spin the disks in the same direction and look through with a mirror on the spinning disks. By looking at the mirror, you will see a single moving picture with repeated movements.

Zoetrope

Zoetrope comes as the next generation of Phenakistoscope.

It was invented around 1834 by William George Horner.

This vintage toy can be assumed as an early motion picture projector.

The form of Zoetrope is a drum that contains a set of still images that are different from one another. These images will create an illusion or Motion when we spin the drum.

FlipBook

The new innovation of animated pictures for illusion appeared in 1868.

It is called a flipbook, invented by John Barnes Linnet.

Flipbook appears under its original name of kineograph, a Latin word that carries the meaning of “moving pictures.”

This Shark Dance is an excellent example of the flipbook. 

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Traditional Animation

Traditional animation is also known as cel animation.

This type of animation involves hand drawing characters on a transparent piece of paper that fitted on a peg to create a sequence.

To make traditional animation, it needs great patience for the process that takes a long time.

For a sequence, the creator needs to draw the characters in a quite different form or pose from the previous pictures.

After that, all the drawings were put into a plastic cell, which later photographed picture by picture to create a whole sequence.

One of the old examples of traditional animation was created in 1908 by French caricaturist, Emile Cohl, entitled “Fantasmagorie.”