Hand drawn animation is the oldest form of animation where each frame is drawn by hand. Early hand drawn animations from 1895 had poor quality images that did not smoothly transition between frames and simple storylines without many characters or plots. As the years went on, hand drawn animation evolved with sharper images, vibrant colors, and more complex storylines and plots. Modern hand drawn animations from 2009 have extremely detailed drawings, perfectly flowing scenes with many characters, and vivid realistic colors throughout.

1. Hand Drawn AnimationBy Sara Khan

2. What is Hand Drawn Animation?Is the oldest and historically the most popular form of animation. In a traditionally-animated cartoon, each frame is drawn by hand and is also called traditional animation.

3. Autour d'une Cabine - Emile Reynaud 1895AnalysisThis film is one of the first that came out, that was hand drawn animation. As you can tell the quality of the film was not very good, and the images sometimes didn't flow and merge into each other like in image 1.The film has no sound in it except for a soundtrack in the back.Also there is not much that happens in the storyline, because hand drawn animation was so new ,the first films were quite simple and didn't involve many characters or plots.

4. Gerald McBoing-Boing (Robert Cannon, 1950)AnalysisAs Years went on by hand drawn animation began evolving slowly with much sharper images, with vibrant colours and much more storylines and plots.In the film above there is much more detail in the drawing and the film flows very smoothly when cutting into different scenes. The first image shows how they actually start drawing the character with the basic features.

5. Andreas Deja on The Princess and the Frog-2009AnalysisThe princess and the frog is the latest hand drawn animation, and as you can see everything has improved since the latest films, the tiniest details are shown in the characters, objects and sceneries, there are colours everywhere ;vibrant, soft and real like. The film flows perfectly with many characters and storylines.