Timeline of animation:
Charles Emile Reynaud
(8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918)
He was a french animator.
Responsible for some of the first ever animations created.
Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877
Théâtre Optique in December 1888.
on 28 October 1892 he projected the first animated film in public, Pauvre Pierrot, at the Musée Grévin in Paris.
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Thomas Alva Edison
(February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)
He was an inventor of many things.
He was not into animation as much as the other poeple on this time line. But he did contribute a lot to the world of animation.
He invented the phonograph
He also invented the motion picture camera (Kinetograph)
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Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas
(19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954)
They patented the cinematograph.
His first film, made with his brother,Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon(1894) is considered the first true motion picture.
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Winsor McCay
(1867 – July 26, 1934)
He was an American cartoonist and animator.
He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (1905)
and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
He used Key framing animation (This means the animation moves more smoothly while playing. When moving from one point to another it will not look as slow. It will run through nicely)
between 1911 and 1921 he self-financed and animated ten films
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Max Fleischer
(July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972)
He was an Polish Jewish American animator, inventor, film director and producer.
He was an Polish Jewish American animator, inventor, film director and producer.
He is a pioneer in the development of animation.
He was head of Fleischer studies.
He brought created the well know animated characters such as:
Betty Boop
KoKo the Clown
Popeye
Superman
He was responsible for many inventions including the Rotoscope
In 1937 film production at his studio suffered a five month strike
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Pat Sullivan
(22 February 1885– 15 February 1933)
He was an Australian cartoonist, pioneer animator and film producer
He is best known for his creation of Felix the Cat
He was head of Fleischer studies.
He brought created the well know animated characters such as:
Betty Boop
KoKo the Clown
Popeye
Superman
He was responsible for many inventions including the Rotoscope
In 1937 film production at his studio suffered a five month strike
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Pat Sullivan
(22 February 1885– 15 February 1933)
He was an Australian cartoonist, pioneer animator and film producer
He is best known for his creation of Felix the Cat
He refused to make Felix the cat with sound until he heard Mickey Mouse in sound and eventually gave in and put Felix the Cat into sound.
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Walt Disney
(December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966)
He was an American entrepreneur, cartoonist, animator, voice actor, and film producer.
He is said to be a cultural icon because of his work in animation
He is know for many different famous cartoon characters like Micky Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. His cartoons revolutionised animation history. Walt disney is still one of the largest cartoon companies in the world. Having its own amusement park based around its characters.
In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a short-lived company called "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists".
Presented as "Newman Laugh-O-Grams", Disney's cartoons became widely popular in the Kansas City area.
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Richard Oliver Postage
(12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008)
He was an English animator, puppeteer and writer.
He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes:
Pingwings
Pogles' Wood
Noggin the Nog
Ivor the Engine
Clangers
Bagpuss
Postgate wrote Alexander the Mouse, a story about a mouse born to be king. Using an Irish-produced magnetic system – on which animated characters were attached to a painted background, and then photographed through a 45-degree mirror.
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He is said to be a cultural icon because of his work in animation
He is know for many different famous cartoon characters like Micky Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. His cartoons revolutionised animation history. Walt disney is still one of the largest cartoon companies in the world. Having its own amusement park based around its characters.
In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a short-lived company called "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists".
Presented as "Newman Laugh-O-Grams", Disney's cartoons became widely popular in the Kansas City area.
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Richard Oliver Postage
(12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008)
He was an English animator, puppeteer and writer.
He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes:
Pingwings
Pogles' Wood
Noggin the Nog
Ivor the Engine
Clangers
Bagpuss
Postgate wrote Alexander the Mouse, a story about a mouse born to be king. Using an Irish-produced magnetic system – on which animated characters were attached to a painted background, and then photographed through a 45-degree mirror.
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Richard Williams
(born March 19, 1933)
He is a Canadian–British animator.
He is best known for serving as animation director on Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler.
He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to What's New, Pussycat? (1965) and title and linking sequences in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
He also animated the cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films.
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Nick Park
(born 6 December 1958)
He is an English animator, director and writer.
He is best known as being the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.
In 1985, he joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products
He is an English animator, director and writer.
He is best known as being the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.
In 1985, he joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products
By the beginning of 2010, Park had won 4 Academy Awards and had the distinction of having won an Oscar every time he had been nominated.
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Mike Judge
(born October 17, 1962)
He is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, musician, and cartoonist.
He created and starred in the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head(1993–1997, 2011), King of the Hill (1997–2010) and The Goode Family(2009) and co-created the television sitcom Silicon Valley (2014–present).
In 2005, Mike Judge was presented with the Austin Film Festival's Outstanding Television Writer Award
