Early Animation
The early days of animation were the building blocks for what we have now. They are how we are able to do such things today from 2D to 3D animations. Someone who greatly helped this development was Winsor McCay. He was one of the people to really kick start animation throughout the 90's. He made works such as Little Nemo, The Sinking of Lusitania and Gertie the Dinosaur.
Gertie the Dinosaur was also the first key frame animation to be made. People were astounded by it and were amazed to see him interact with this animated dinosaur. Besides McCay's key frame animation another man named Stuart Blackton (who was a film producer) decided to try another new type of animation at the time. With his background in film he used this knowledge to produce a film that was stop motion. It was a film that consisted of multiple frames that different a tiny bit from the previous one. With these frames when you played them in order the drawing would seem to move. He used this technique to create a short film called Humorous Phases of Funny Faces. This would be one of the first drawn stop motioned films. With these new ideas of entertainment animations seem like the future of entertainment.
During this rising popularity of animation a man by the name of Walt Disney decided to join the animation idea. They decided to take this a step further with their cartoon Steamboat Willie. This cartoon became the first one to ever have synchronized sounds along the cartoon itself. It was a big success to say the least with the some characters in this cartoon still even being used today. However McCay saw this type of animation as a insult. He tried to show that animation should be more serious and not be like how Disney was portraying it. You can see this in his work such as The Sinking of the Lusitania, where it's supposed to portray the event of the Germans sinking their boat. Well in the end these early animations are really where it started to grow and flourish, it's where animation really started to take shape into what it is today. These events are pretty important and I can't even think how it would have turned out if none of these events happened in the first place.
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