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The history of animation starts from still drawings - cave paintings. Here animals are drawn with multiple sets of legs which change position in each drawing - clearly trying to show motion. Pictures like this were shown in books, strips, pots and discs to show the illusion of movement until 1868. Later on in 1868 John Barns Linnet made the first flip book. Flip books were yet another development that brought us closer to modern animation. The Flip Book creates the illusion of motion. A set of sequential pictures flipped at a high speed creates this effect.

The first animated film was created by Charles-Émile Reynaud, inventor of the praxinoscope, an animation system using loops of 12 pictures. On October 28, 1892 at Musée Grévin in Paris, France he exhibited animations consisting of loops of about 500 frames, using his Théâtre Optique system - similar in principle to a modern film projector. Later in 1995 the first computer-generated imagery (CGI) revolutionized animation film 'Toy Story' produced by Pixar was made. The process of CGI animation is still very tedious and similar to traditional animation, and it still has many of the same principles. A principal difference of CGI Animation compared to traditional animation is that drawing is replaced by 3D modeling, almost like virtual version of stop-motion, though a form of animation that combines the two worlds can be considered to be computer aided animation but on 2D computer drawing.


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