Unit 11: development in animation

Walt Disney and other animation 


Sound: In 1928, The Jazz Singer, was the first “talking picture and Disney's Steamboat Willie was the first animated work with synchronized sound on picture. Warner Bros owned few music songs in 20's and 30's. 

Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa Illinois. He and his brother Roy co-created Walt Disney Productions, that became one of the best acknowledged  motion-picture production companies in the world.  Disney created the well known cartoon character Mickey Mouse. He won 22 Academy Awards  during his lifetime, and was the founder of theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World. 

He and his staff created     numerous

fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Disney himself was the original voice for Mickey. 

In addition to his Academy Awards, Disney won seven Emmy Awards. Today, there are Disney theme parks around the world, including Tokyo, Paris, and Hong Kong.

In 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first animated feature to use hand drawn animation.  

https://youtu.be/JtWcPgDjPrM
Cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate used as a medium for painting animation frames. Cartoons or animated movies where each frame of the scene is drawn by hand. 

In 1995 Toy Story was the first fully computer animated feature film released in its time.   

https://youtu.be/KYz2wyBy3kc

In 1987 The simpsons is an american adult cartoon sitcom created by Matt Groening and its the longest running american cartoon sitcom and the longest running cartoon series.In 2009 it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest running American scripted. also Matt Groening was inspired by Walt Disney.

 primetime TV series    

https://youtu.be/Amhoummv4r0 (first Simpsons intro 1989)

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Zoetrope 

Invented in 1834 by William George Horner, it was an early form of motion picture projector that consisted of a drum containing a set of still images, that was turned in a circular fashion in order to create the illusion of motion.

Praxinoscope

Invented in 1877 by a Frenchman, Emile Reynaud. A substance of the moving picture with narrow vertical mirrors placed at the center of the drum. 

Phenakistoscope

Uses an open top drum with a sequence of images drawn inner side of the drum and each image is all in the same distance from the centre of the circle, it also an illusion. 

Zoopraxiscope

Eadweard Muybridge created Zoopraxiscope in 1879.  the sequences of images from glass discs and was devised in order to prove the authenticity of Muybridge's galloping horse pictures.