- This is an additional Reading Text for the Animation degree programme at QUST/Bradford
- It is uncontroversial to say that reading is probably the best way to extend your vocabulary and the more you read, the greater your vocabulary will be
- AWL vocabulary is displayed in bold
The history of animation is surprisingly long. This is because people have tried to represent the movement in an image form since the earliest times. It was in the early 18th century when special instruments were invented that created the illusion of movement and therefore animation as we understand it today. It wasn’t until the late 1800s that stop motion cinematography was used and the first animations using drawings started in the early years of the 20th century. The most famous animation company, Disney, was founded in 1923 and they released their first full-length animated movie, which was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937 (the first animated movie in English language and the first in Technicolor). The first animated cartoons made for TV started in the 1960s and by the 1980s they were ubiquitous. Computer generated animation made the leap from video games to animated movies in the mid-1990s with Disney’s release of Toy Story.
Below is an image showing the history of animation. Click the image to visit the original source.
