Animation Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is rather a film technique than a specific genre. History Overview Animation was originally created through quickly flipping sheets with series of hand drawn pictures. The history of Animation started back in 180 A.D. in China with zoetrope, which eventually evolved into thaumatrope, then the flip book. Today, computers can be used to create animations. Animations in the 1900s were stereotypically made for children. Today, as more animation films being developed, the target audience has widened to young and older adults as they begin to admire the genre of animation. Subgenres

1) Traditional Animation: hand-drawn Claymation: figures made of clay or a similar animations malleable material to create stop-motion Full Animation: high quality traditionally- animation animated films -The Gumby Show (1953) Art Clokey (creator) - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) -Pingu (1986-2006) Otmar Gutman (creator) David Hand (director) Silhouette Animation: cutout animation in - Pinocchio (1940), which the characters are backlit and only Hamilton Luske Ben Sharpsteen (directors) visible as silhouettes - The Iron Giant (1999) Brad Bird (director) -Princes et Princesses (2000) Michel Ocelot Limited Animation: animations using less (director) detailed or stylized drawings and methods of movement 3) Japanese Anime - Yellow Submarine (1968), George Dunning - Akira (1988), Katsuhiro Otomo (director) (director) - My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Hayao Miyazaki Rotoscoping: animation production process (director) by which live-action movements are traced - Millennium Actress (2001), Satashi Kon frame by frame (director) - A Waking Life (2001), Richard Linklater (director) - A Scanner Darkly (2006) Richard Linklater 4) CGI (Computer Generated (director) Animation): CGI animation includes a broad range of techniques, all of which are digitally 2) Stop Motion Animation: animation generated on a computer. Unlike 2D animation created by physically manipulating real-world which focuses on image manipulation, virtual objects and photographing them one frame of film worlds and characters can be created in 3D at a time to create the illusion of movement animation to appear real to the audience. -Chicken Run (2000) Peter Lord, Nick Park (directors) 2D Animation: - SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Stephen Animation Hillenburg (creator) - Persepolis (2007), Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi (directors)

3D Animation: - A Bug’s Life (1998), John Lasseter (director) - WALL-E (2008), Andrew Stanton