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Back to homepage  There is no single person who can be considered the "creator" of the art of film animation, as there were several people doing several projects which could be considered various types of animation all around the same time.

[|Georges Méliès] was a creator of special-effect films; he was generally one of the first people to use animation with his technique. He discovered a technique by accident which was to stop the camera rolling to change something in the scene, and then continue rolling the film. This idea was later known as stop-motion animation. Méliès discovered this technique accidentally when his camera broke down while shooting a bus driving by. When he had fixed the camera, a hearse happened to be passing by just as Méliès restarted rolling the film, his end result was that he had managed to make a bus transform into a hearse. This was just one of the great contributors to animation in the early years.

Traditional animation (also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation) was the process used for most animated films of the 20th century. The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings, which are first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it. The animators' drawings are traced or photocopied onto transparent acetate sheets called [|cels], which are filled in with paints in assigned colors or tones on the side opposite the line drawings. The completed character cels are photographed one-by-one onto motion picture film against a painted background by a [|rostrum camera].
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Some of the well known disney animated movies are pinnochio, dumbo, bambi, cinderella, alice in wonderland, peter pan, sleeping beauty, one hundred and one dalmations, the jungle book, the lion king, the little mermaid, toy story and tarzan. Some of the newer movies are monsters inc., finding nemo, the incredibles, chicken little, cars and the latest movie UP. Some other animation movie companys are
 * An example of traditional animation, a horse animated by [|rotoscoping] from [|Eadweard Muybridge]'s 19th century photos. || An [|Egyptian] [|burial chamber] [|mural], approximately 4000 years old, showing [|wrestlers] in action. Even though this may appear similar to a series of animation drawings, there was no way of viewing the images in motion. It does, however, indicate the artist's intention of depicting motion. ||
 * The Walt Disney Company** often simply known as **Disney**, is the largest media and entertainment multi-industry company in the world, known for its family-friendly products. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and [|Roy Disney] as an animation studio, it has become one of the biggest [|Hollywood] studios, and owner and licensor of eleven theme parks and several television networks, including [|ABC] and [|ESPN]. Disney's corporate headquarters and primary production facilities are located at [|The Walt Disney Studios] in [|Burbank, California]. [|Mickey Mouse] serves as the official mascot of //The Walt Disney Company//.