CFCMTimeline



A timeline of important events in animation history:


 * **__Date:__ ** || **__Event:__** ||
 * 1831 || A man called Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr. Simon Rittrer made a machine called a phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing the viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows; behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed, the movement of the windows with the images created an animated effect. ||
 * 1887 || Thomas Edison started his research into moving pictures. ||
 * 1889 || Thomas Edision announced his creation of the kinetoscope which projected a 50 ft length of film in 13 seconds and George Eastman began the manufacture of photographic film strips. ||
 * 1895 || Louis and Augustine Lumiere issued a patent for a device called a cinematograph capable of projecting moving pictures. ||
 * 1906 || J. Stuart Blackton made the first animated film which he called "Humorous phases of funny faces." His method was to draw comical faces on a blackboard and film them. He would stop the film, erase one face to draw another, and then film the newly drawn face. The stop-motion provided a starting effect as the facial expressions changed be fore the viewer's eyes like animation. ||
 * 1911 || Winsor McCay produced an animation sequence using his comic strip character "Little Nemo." ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1914 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Earl Hurd applies for a patent for the technique of drawing most of the animated portion of an animation on a clear sheet called a celluloid sheet and later photographing it with its matching background. [Cel animation] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1919 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Pat Sullivan created an American cartoon "Felix the Cat." ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1923 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Walt and Roy Disney found Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1927 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Warner Brothers released "The Jazz Singer" which introduced combined sound and images ||
 * 1<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">934 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Urb Irwek creates a multi-plane camera. This camera is capable of filming several separate layers of cels giving the final frame a truly three dimensional look . ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1964 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Ken Knowlton, working at Bell Laboratories, started developing computer techniques for producing animated movies. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1972 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">At the University of Utah, Fred Parke creates first computer generated facial animation, //"Computer Generated Animation of Faces."// ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1985 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Girard and Maciejewski at OSU publish a paper describing the use of inverse kinematics and dynamics for animation. Their techniques are used in the animation "Eurythmy." ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1995 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Toy Story first full-length 3D CG feature film. ||


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