Animation has a long history dating back 40,000 years with cave paintings depicting movement. Shadow puppetry and Greek vases further advanced animation techniques. The magic lantern and early photography experiments led to the creation of basic animated devices like the zoetrope and mutoscope in the 1830s-1860s. Stop motion photography pioneers like Muybridge and Reynaud developed animation technologies. The 1920s saw the addition of sound to animated films. Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie in 1928 was a breakthrough as the first animated film with synchronized sound. Advances in color, computer graphics, and CGI expanded animation possibilities through today.

1. Animation
Timeline
BY Andrew Clement

2. 40,000 Bc
The earliest form form of animation was created in
the Aurignacian period around 40,00Bc in caves
around the world, most famous in France, by
painting images on to the wall and ceilings, they
believed they moved with the flickering of the fire.

3. 7,000 Bc
Shadow puppetry is an old art form of story telling
created with parchment paper puppets first scene in
china around 7,000 Bc but popular with the Middle
East, especially in India .Where light is shone behind
illuminating the puppets in front

4. 2,000Bc
The Ancient Greeks used vases to depict Greek
society and fables with a series of pictures re-enact
scenes

5. 1660‟s Ad
The Magic Lantern was the first form of projecting an
image onto a screen using an oil burning lamp
creating the light source, the magic lantern is similar
to a slide show where a series of small paintings
passed the light projecting them on screen, usually
the paintings are from unexplored and foreign
country's showing tigers and lions ect.

6. 1825 Ad
Nicéphore Niépe is the creator of he first ever
picture was taken using a series of chemicals on a
metal plate, looking out of his window onto the roofs
at Le Gras. This was influential on the animation
scene as it showed images can be captured leading
to the creation of stop motion

7. 1830‟s Ad
The first Parlor games are invented showing the
invention of moving images at home, the
phenakistocope and zoetrope both displayed the
movement of images showing a couple of seconds
of footage. Both machines had small slits in the side
of the machine to look in, seeing the animation. In
terms of the history of animation it was the first step
into animation, film and photography at home.

8. 1845 Ad
Lumieres further then went onto holding their first
ever private screening of projected motion pictures
in Paris 1845. An admission charge was also added
due to it being the first ever private screening.

9. 1860‟s Ad
The flip Book was invented by Barnes
Linnett a book of images when flicked
through created a short animation,
each drawing was slightly different
from the one previous giving the
illusion of a moving image, in turn
creating a short animated story. A
couple of years later Herman Casler
created the Mutoscope the
mechanical version of the flipbook by
paying a penny you could see the
short animated story, usually the
mutoscope animations was slightly
racier with the most famous being
“what the butler saw”

10. 1860‟s Ad
Edweard Muybridge was a pioneer of photography
as well as stop motion. By setting up a series of
cameras he set out to prove the theory that a one
time all hoofs of a horse are off the ground, by
adding a shutter to the camera he succeeded
proving the theory and creating stop motion as the
camera only exposed a second of footage.

11. 1880‟s Ad
Charles-Émile Reynaud was a French pioneer
and the man who invented the Praxinoscope
which was a spinning drum with a selection of
mirrors you viewed the animation from and was
the successor of the Zoetrope. The
Praxinoscope was invented in 1877. It useds
strips of photographs or drawings placed on the
inside rim of the machine. In 1889 Reynaud
developed one of the first projectors the Théâtre
Optique, an improved version of the
Praxinoscope capable of projecting the images
onto a screen from a longer roll of pictures, this
allowed him to show drawn animated cartoon to
larger audiences.

12. Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès Was one of the first
creator of special effects. By
accident he discovered when his
camera broke down and when he
had the film developed the bus had
disappeared! He thought that if you
freeze the camera, like he did with
the bus, and move it to a new
location you could create the illusion
of magic of a disappearing and reappearing object. Méliès used this
technique through out his career.

13. 1895 Ad
William Harbutt invented plastacine. Combining clay
and oil. After this discovery he then further finessed
the technique of model animation which evolved into
films such as Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit.

14. 1897 Ad
Arthur Melbourne-Cooper is the creator of the oldest
existing animation on record, the animation was
created for Birds Custard and was the first recorded
use of animation in advertising.

15. 1914 Ad
Winsor McCay who was an animator, produced the
first proper animated film for the cinemas which was
Gertie the Dinosaur. He would show realism through
this animation as when the dinosaur got closer to the
screen he would make it bigger which in real life
(perspective), He also made it eat the tree and a
boulder.

16. 1915 Ad
CELL or Cellulouse Actete was developed within this
time period, this entails clear plastic which enables
drawings to be made in layers, so the background
image can have added detail on top but still seeing
the image behind. so the images used look much
more realistic and would further enable depth for the
film.

17. 1920 Ad
Within the 1920‟s, sound was then further added
onto films. The sound was then synchronized onto
movies. This made films a lot more successful as
individuals could then also watch and listen to what
was going on, feelings of characters could then be
further expressed through speech.

18. 1928 Ad
In 1928 Walt Disney‟s Steamboat Willie( Mickey
Mouse) made his first appearance, this was the first
successful animated film and also the first animated
film to use synchronized sound.

19. 1930 Ad
In the 1930‟s color was added to film.
In
1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the first full
length animated feature film to be released in
Technicolor. This was one of the first films to use
Rotoscoping, a process of tracing real life people
and then turning it into animation. So the
movements of the body are more realistic, than if
they were just to be drawn by hand, they were
capturing the motion. For the time it was like CGI.

20. 1962 Ad
Willis O‟Brien was an American motion picture
special effects and a stop motion animation
pioneer. He created the dinosaur and animated
them for The Lost World and King Kong.

21. 1980 Ad
„Tron‟ the first ever animated film made by computer
technology, this meant that the use of hand
made/hand drawn images and features would not be
useful. It was released by Walt Disney productions.

22. 1995 Ad
The first ever Toy Story film was created
in 1995, it was the first full-length allcomputer-generated animated film up to
this period. It was also the first ever film
produced by Pixar. The full film was
produced by computer technology which
led to hand drawn images not being
need anymore for filming, this is how
computer technology taken over and
dominated.

23. Ray Harryhausen
Was an outstanding visual effects
creator, writer and producer and the
creator of 3D motion model
animation know as Dynamation
working on major films through a 60
year career. working on major
blockbuster such as Jason and the
Argonauts, original King Kong and
Clash of the Titans.

24. 2009 Ad
The Princess and the Frog is the last
traditional animated film Disney ever
made before using CGI to make their
animated films, after Home on the
Range.
The traditional animation is using hand
drawn images to create the frames the
next slightly different from the previous.