The document provides a timeline of key developments in visual animation between 1800-2000. It lists important early animation techniques such as the phenakistoscope in 1831, zoetrope in 1834, and flipbook in 1868. Major animated works are noted such as 'Steamboat Willie' in 1928, being the first film to use synced sound. Computer animation developments are highlighted including CGI being used in films from 1979 onwards, with 'Toy Story' in 1995 being the first fully CGI animated feature film.

1. Visual Animation
Timeline
1800 & 1900

2. 1831 Phenakitoscope
1886 Vitascope 1892 Reynaud begins
1868 Kinetograph; showing his animations in his
flipbook theatre combining his earlier
Praxinoscope and a projector
1889 Kinetoscope
1834 Zoetrope 1872 Eadweard Muybridge
begins research into 1887 Praxinoscope,
animals in motion Charles-Émile Reynaud

3. 1923 Disney
1910 'En Route' is
is founded
made, it is the first cut
by brothers
out animation
Walt and Roy
1906 Humorous Ph
1919 'Felix the Cat' by
ases of Funny Faces
Pat Sullivan
by J. Stuart
Blackton
1917 'El Apostol'
1908 Emile Cohl makes the first full length
Phantasmagorie, first animation. 58,000
film depicting white frames and 70 1928 Steamboat
figures on a black minutes Willie, first film
background using synced sound
1914 'Gertie, the
Trained Dinosaur'.
10,000 hand-drawn
frames

4. 1983 CGI is used
1979 'Graphics in scenes from
Group' is Star Wars, the
created, later Wrath of Kahn
renamed Pixar 1995 Toy Story is the
1982 TRON uses CGI
first feature length,
combined with film
completely CGI
footage
movie
1961 John Whitney uses computers to 1986 Pixars first animation,
generate graphics for title sequences. He 'Luxo Jr' is released 1993 Jurassic
starts to develop his hardware and create Park uses CGI
algorithms for more complex digital images for realistic
living
creatures