history of animation
History of Animation
Animation itself is a simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames using and photographed by a camera. Cartoons on television are one example of animation. The difference between animation and video are that video takes continuous motion and breaks it up in the form of live and action and it is edited by add cuts. Animation starts with independent pictures and puts them together to form the illusion of continuous motion.
Animation has been around for over 5000 years. Animation has transformed the way we watch cartoons, in fact animation created cartoon. It has also developed the way children learn, animation could be a way of encouraging children to learn. Advances in technology today have made animations in movies and video games very realistic unlike in previous years.
Since the 1820’s animated features were drawn by hand to make simple animations such as Thumatropes. The name ‘Thaumatrope’ means ‘Magic Turn’, designed to amuse and intrigue children and develop their imagination further during their childhood. Thaumatrope is made using 2 pieces of paper and a string and a drawn image on the front and another image on the back. As the strings are twirled quickly, it gives the illusion of combining the images into a single image due to persistence of vision. Persistence of vision enables to retain an image for roughly 1/20 second after the object is gone. The eye continues to see the two images of both sides of the Thaumotrope shortly after each has disappeared. Persistence of vision also helps the eye to see optical illusions and cartoons every day. The persistence of vision creates phi phenomenon which is when two lights are rapidly turned on and off in succession something appears to move backwards and forwards between them while the lights stay stationary similar illusion in which one light appears to move smoothly backwards and
Animation itself is a simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames using and photographed by a camera. Cartoons on television are one example of animation. The difference between animation and video are that video takes continuous motion and breaks it up in the form of live and action and it is edited by add cuts. Animation starts with independent pictures and puts them together to form the illusion of continuous motion.
Animation has been around for over 5000 years. Animation has transformed the way we watch cartoons, in fact animation created cartoon. It has also developed the way children learn, animation could be a way of encouraging children to learn. Advances in technology today have made animations in movies and video games very realistic unlike in previous years.
Since the 1820’s animated features were drawn by hand to make simple animations such as Thumatropes. The name ‘Thaumatrope’ means ‘Magic Turn’, designed to amuse and intrigue children and develop their imagination further during their childhood. Thaumatrope is made using 2 pieces of paper and a string and a drawn image on the front and another image on the back. As the strings are twirled quickly, it gives the illusion of combining the images into a single image due to persistence of vision. Persistence of vision enables to retain an image for roughly 1/20 second after the object is gone. The eye continues to see the two images of both sides of the Thaumotrope shortly after each has disappeared. Persistence of vision also helps the eye to see optical illusions and cartoons every day. The persistence of vision creates phi phenomenon which is when two lights are rapidly turned on and off in succession something appears to move backwards and forwards between them while the lights stay stationary similar illusion in which one light appears to move smoothly backwards and