The History of Animation
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Do you remember those little tablets with different characters or images on each page? When you flipped the pages, they looked like they were moving? That was an early form of animation. There are many different types of animation used today. Even though some believe that animation didn't exist until the 1920's, it goes much further back than that. History of animation is one of the course require while attending online film school.
Animation is the method of taking still, inactive 3D and 2D artistically created images and creating the illusion that these images and move and interact with other images. This is usually done in photographed frames, than when played back at the right speed makes the images appear alive. There are several different types of animations. Some of them can be combined with film, and others work better alone.
During the Paleolithic area, our ancestors drew pictures of animals on cave walls. These images were normally of animals, and they would have several legs, more than the normal four legs. This was their way of indicating that the animal was moving since each leg would be in a different position. You can also see samples of animation on the walls of many Egyptian tombs. A good online animation school will cover all of this history.
Claymation became one of the more famous types of animations during the early 1900's. Some of the other inventions that made use of short animations included the Zoetrope, Thaumatrope and the Phenaksitscope which were used more as parlor games and amusements than anything else. The first actual short film to use any type of animation was created I 1892 by Musee Grevin and using 12 pictures
The first, full length animated film was El Apostol, made by Quirino Cristiani from Argentina in 1917. The first animated film to use colored tinted scenes was directed by Lotte Reiniger from Germany and Berthold Bartosch of French/Hungarian descent. It was called the Adventures of Prince Achmed.
CGI, Computer Generated Imagery is now the newest phase of animation. It is as tedious and time consuming as traditional animation. The only difference is in the technique used for imaging. Traditional animation uses drawn or sketched pictures, and CGI uses 2D and 3D computer generated images. With the use of CGI, the images do not fade, lose their color or diminish in quality.
Animation is the method of taking still, inactive 3D and 2D artistically created images and creating the illusion that these images and move and interact with other images. This is usually done in photographed frames, than when played back at the right speed makes the images appear alive. There are several different types of animations. Some of them can be combined with film, and others work better alone.
During the Paleolithic area, our ancestors drew pictures of animals on cave walls. These images were normally of animals, and they would have several legs, more than the normal four legs. This was their way of indicating that the animal was moving since each leg would be in a different position. You can also see samples of animation on the walls of many Egyptian tombs. A good online animation school will cover all of this history.
Claymation became one of the more famous types of animations during the early 1900's. Some of the other inventions that made use of short animations included the Zoetrope, Thaumatrope and the Phenaksitscope which were used more as parlor games and amusements than anything else. The first actual short film to use any type of animation was created I 1892 by Musee Grevin and using 12 pictures
The first, full length animated film was El Apostol, made by Quirino Cristiani from Argentina in 1917. The first animated film to use colored tinted scenes was directed by Lotte Reiniger from Germany and Berthold Bartosch of French/Hungarian descent. It was called the Adventures of Prince Achmed.
CGI, Computer Generated Imagery is now the newest phase of animation. It is as tedious and time consuming as traditional animation. The only difference is in the technique used for imaging. Traditional animation uses drawn or sketched pictures, and CGI uses 2D and 3D computer generated images. With the use of CGI, the images do not fade, lose their color or diminish in quality.
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There are many different courses you will take at a film school or an animation school. All of them relate to methods and techniques that you will use in animation and film production.
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