Animation History

9/6/13
How Technology Shaped Histroy

Technology has shaped how animation and its process has evolved through history. Technology or lack thereof made complex long term animations impossible in its early history. As technology grew so did the ability for artists and animators to create longer better animations with sound and color, up to the completely digital format we have today.

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9/5/13
Animation has evolved over the years, but is basically a series of changing frames or still images that create a moving image. It started off as flip books and other devices, but with the invention of film stop motion animation became available. This evolved into cartoons with cells and has continued to grow into the completely digital form it is today.


The Persistence of Vision is the theory that animation is based off of. It basically says that if you change from one picture to another picture fast enough your eye will be tricked into believing that the image is actually moving. This is given that the image is one that stays relatively constant between one frame to the next with slight changes that are enough to show movement but not too changed that it is another picture entirely.