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Date: 2001 BCE
Animation was first found in the B.C. times around 5,200 years ago.
The first was a pottery bowl that was from Iran and it was a goat jumping up eatting a plant. -
Winsor McCay was an American Animator born on September 26,1869 and his best work was Gertie the Dinosaur. He was also a cartoonist and created 10 animated films between 1911 and 1921.
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Peter "Pat" Sullivan was an Australian Animator that animated Felix the Cat. Felix the Cat was a silent animation and became popular in the 1920s. Sullivan wanted to add sound to Felix the Cat, but he died before getting it to work. Felix the Cat impacted animation because the character continued to be in films.
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Walter Elias Disney was a famous animator known for creating Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. He was referred to as Walt Disney or Mickey Mouse sometimes.
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1.Fantasmagorie was a famous film made by Emile Cohl (father of the animated cartoon) in 1908, between the months February and May.
2. The Prolific Egg was created by Georges Melies in 1902. He was a cinemagician and has directed 531 films.
3.Little Nemo was created by Winsor McCay in 1911 and was a handrawn animation.
4. The Waltzing Couple was created by Eadweard J Muybridge in 1893 using a phenakistoscope.
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Gertie the Dinosaur (created by Winsor McCay) was important because it is widely known as the earliest animated film. This was the first animation that used animation techniques like keyframes, animation loops and more. This impacted the next generation of animators like Walt Disney.
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Felix the Cat was first created as Master Tom in the film Feline Follies. This animation was important because Felix was the first animation to be a studio character, which means that he is in mutiple films.
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The Warner Brothers were Harry(Hirsz), Albert(Aaron), Sam(Szmul) and Jack(Itzhak or Jacob) Wonskolaser or Wonsal. They were know for adding sound to their animations that synched with the movement of the character.
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Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse, which is one of the most famous characters in animation today. His animations were creative and well organized. He also moved to Hollywood, California where a lot of film-making was; this helped develop animation to a business.
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Betty Boop was created by Max Fliesher with the help of Grim Natwick.
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Digital Art probably came out around 1967 when the first animation using a computer was created. That film was called Hummingbird created by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer.
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Toy Story was the first full length 3D Animation Film created by Pixar in 1995. However, the official first animation was Home created by Pixar around 1972.
