Pioneers of Animation Timeline

Pioneers of Animation Timeline 

1824: Peter Roget presented his paper on the persistence of vision.

1831: Joseph Plateau created the phenakistoscope.

1872: Eadweard Muybridge started his work on animals in motion.

1889: Thomas Edison created the kinetoscope.

1896: Thoma Armat designed the vitascope - to project Thomas Edison's films.

1906: J. Stuart Blackton created the first animated film.

1910: Emile Cohl made the first cut out animation called En Route.

1914: Winsor McCay created a cartoon consisting of 10,000 drawings.

1926: In Argentina, the first feature-length film is created called "El Apostol".

1923: Walt and Roy Disney created Disney brothers Cartoon Studio.

1927: Warner Brothers introduced combined sound and images in "The Jazz Singer".

1934: Urb Irwek created the multi-plane camera - used to give a three dimensional look.

1945: Harry Smith produces an animation by drawing directly on to the film.

1961: John Whitney created the film title sequence using differential gear mechanisms.

1987: John Lasseter at Pixar published a paper on the traditional animation principles.

1988: Willow used morphing in live action film.

1993: Jurassic Park used CG  to create the realising living creatures.

1995: Toy Story was the first full-length 3D feature film.