Interesting 8 facts About Animation PART I

•  What is animation..?

Animation is a method of photographing successive drawings, models, or even puppets, to create an illusion of movement in a sequence. Because our eyes can only retain an image for approx. 1/10 of a second, when multiple images appear in fast succession, the brain blends them into a single moving image.

• Who invented animation? 

The very first animated “film” was by a french cartoonist named Émile Cohl. He's often seen as the father of animation because of his 1908 film, Fantasmagorie, which features a playful cast of hand-drawn characters that are up to no good.

 

• What place does Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs hold in the history of animation?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first film to use up-to-the-minute animation techniques and receive a Hollywood-style release. When it was released in 1937, the film was an immediate box-office sensation and was honoured with a special Academy

Award.

• Who made the first film-based animation?

The first film-based animation was made by J. Stuart Blackton, whose Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906 launched a successful series of animated films for New York’s pioneering Vitagraph Company.

 

• Who invented rotoscope animation? 

The Fleischer brothers invented the rotoscope process, in which a strip of live-action footage can be traced and redrawn as a cartoon. They exploited this technique in their pioneering series Out of the Inkwell (1919–29). 

• What is the hardest thing to animate?

According to Design buzz: 'liquids are one of the most difficult things to animate, as the designers must consider texture, movement, and how it reacts with other objects. '

• What is the most important principle in animation? 

The squash and stretch principle is considered the most important of the 12 principles of animation. When applied, it gives your animated characters and objects the illusion of gravity, weight, mass and flexibility.

Who is the most famous animated character? 

Mickey Mouse. The most famous cartoon of all time, all the way down here? Why yes, because Mickey Mouse has never been a big character in feature-length animation, and his best performance was in a tiny segment of classical music oddity Fantasia