Happy
International Animation Day!
Animation is “the process of
creating the continuous motion and shape change illusion by means of rapid
display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other.” The
earliest records of animation appear to be from Paleolithic cave paintings. Now,
the animations we think of today didn’t exist until the birth of
cinematography. It is believed that in 1894 the first filmmakers were Auguste
and Louis Lumière. However, it wasn’t until four years later that the very
first animated screening took place in France by a science teacher,
Charles-Émile Reynaud. Eight years after Reynaud’s screening, J. Stuart
Blackton’s Humourous Phases of Funny
Faces became the first film using animation exclusively. In present day,
animation has become quite a big business. Based on a 2008 statistic, animation
was a US$68.4 billion industry.
Now that I’ve pumped you full of animation
know-how, I challenge you to check out the Daily
Poll!
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