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A Brief History of Animation
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A Brief History of Animation

Covering every aspect of animation, this course is a visual history encompassing a vast range of animation and animators
Highest Rated
Created byRita Vlas
Last updated 5/2024
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • We will begin with the origins of animation and Early Animation Devices
  • We will address animation in every period well into the present day, touching on a range of styles, techniques, innovations, and historical moments.
  • We will discover who is called the Father of American Animation and who made the first fully animated film using hand-drawn animation.
  • We will find out about the most influential person in animation, who revolutionized cartoons with sound and color!

Course content

6 sections • 17 lectures • 2h 59m total length

  • Introduction2:44

    Explore the global history of animation from origins and early devices to multi-plane cameras, the CGI revolution, and the influence of Walt Disney and other pioneers.

  • Animation before Film10:05

    Trace the history of animation from cavemen to early devices. Learn how persistence of vision creates movement at 16 frames per second using magic lantern, zoetrope, and flipbook.

  • Photography and Film4:40

    Explore the birth of cinema and animation from Edison’s kinetic scope to the Lumière cinematograph, tracing stop-frame techniques, early innovations, and landmark figures like Mélies and Cooper.

Requirements

  • No prerequisites for this course

Description

We will begin with the origins of animation and Early Animation Devices, then continue with the first animated cartoons. From there, we will address animation in every period well into the present day, touching on a range of styles, techniques, innovations, and historical moments, from the invention of the multiplane camera to the computer animation revolution and everything in between.

We will discover who is called the Father of American Animation and who made the first fully animated film using hand-drawn animation. We will find out about the most influential person in animation, who revolutionized cartoons with sound and color. Discover who was the first animated movie star. Plus, look at other icons of animation and the new age of TV animation. And finally, the computer animation revolution.

This course covers the world history of animation however, foreign animated films have been included, based on their overall effect on American animation or on how later films were made.

The main criteria for including any animation in this course were: unique artistic achievement later copied by others, technical advances, commercial success, cultural and historical importance, the setting or altering of trends as well as anything interesting that helps to tell the inspirational story of the history of animation.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anybody interested in animation.

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