Essay On The History Of Animation

Do you know anything about the history of animation? Animation is all over the world and is with us everywhere in life. Animation is so hard to understand because you don’t know what goes wrong around in animation.

Animation can be traced back all the way to the silent age. Animation has developed over the years and has become something incredible as far as technological experience. Being able to play your favorite game on your phone or watching your favorite childhood cartoon are all because of animation development. Animation is the technique of drawing or photographing drawing and positions of characters or puppets to create an allusion of movement when shown sequent. It’s kind of like those picture books that you can take at the movie theatre

The pottery bowl was created in an ancient Persian city of ‘Shahkr-e Sukhteh’ also known as the burnt city. The animation was an early sign of animation and is just the beginning of human curiosity to create more. More onto in 2400 B.C. to the Fifth Dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs a form of animation was presented on an Egyptian tomb. The image was two wrestling men in motion presented in minute intervals. These early forms of animation just show how early the idea of animation was in the past.

To begin with, History of Animation first started in 1887. There was a man that invented a celluloid film that could hold pictures and his name was Hannibal Williston Goodwin. Hannibal Williston Goodwin was born on April 21, 1822 in Ulysses, NY. He was an Episcopal priest at the House of Prayer Church and Rectory in Newark, New Jersey. He went to a Union College to become a priest. He died on December 31,

The enchanted drawing was a large sheet of white paper a cartoonist is seen at work rapidly sketching the portrait of an elderly gentlemen of most comical feature and expression. After completing the drawing the artist started to draw on the paper of a clever sketch of a bottle of wine and a goblet, and then he surprised all the people that he showed the drawing to. It was weird because after he drew the sketch of the paper he took the wine and a cup out of the paper that he drew and poured the wine in his cup. “Surprising effects quickly follow after this; and the numerous changes of expression which flit over the face in the sketch cause a vast amount of amusement and at the same time give a splendid illustration of the caricaturist's art. 100 feet. 15.00.” Therefore, the enchanted drawing was best known for containing the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film, which has led Blackton to be considered the father of America