The Era Of Animation: The Golden Age Of Animation

Animation could be defined as the process of making animated films, television programs, computer games, and many more things in that case. There were different eras of animation such as the Silent Age, Golden Age, Dark Age, Renaissance Age, and Millennium Age of animation. Animating has be a worldwide phenomenal since it was created. When the first animated film came out people were star struck because that was the start to a new era in film making. There was an animated film in the year of 1900 by the name of “Enchanted Drawing” but it was not considered the first animated film. Technically, the very first animated film ever made was in the year of 1906 and it was named “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” (Nusair). From then on, cartoonist and

What the golden age of animation was, was the time period in animations history where it was the beginning of “Steamboat Willie” by Walt Disney Cartoons. It also included numerous animation studios’ to rise to their eminences. The gold age begun November 18th, 1928 and it faded out in the late-50’s or the early-60’s. This era ended because new medium of television animation was taking over and made theatrical animated shorts lose ground because the budget was far lower than the theatrical animated shorts (TVTropes). During this time period, the development of classics were born, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. Early cartoons were full of music and they were simply drawn as well. Animation was a very expensive medium and cartoons had to be produced and rushed out as quickly as possible to remain profitable. The “Technicolor Process” was developed in cartoons in the year of 1930. What the Technicolor Process was, was a motion picture process using dye-transfer techniques to produce a colour print (Chauhan). Before this process, color got off to a slow start when cartoons were initially hand colored on early occasions. This process was first used when the Universal film “The King of Jazz” was created by Lantz and Nolan. Later on in this era, animation was not getting enough treatment. The treatment it deserved. That when Walt Disney stepped in and when out of his was to do so. He put so much time

Errors were stacked in new television animation, and they were even cheaply and quickly produced. The amount of movies that were supposed to be released during this era were drastically reducing due to severe budget cuts. Limited animation was introduced in the dark age of animation. Limited animation was the style of making animated films which they utilized as few frames as they can to make the animation come out faster (Gaines). That is why the quality was cheaply and quickly produced. The results of limited animation were choppy, simplified motions of the character(s). It was bad for the animators because their hard work for high quality animations were going down because they were in a rush. The characters motions looked bad because it looked as if they were changing position without even moving a muscle. The dark age of animation was seriously a dark age for cartoon animations because everything happened to go downhill for animators for some