Analyse the significance of the work of two key animators from different time periods.

Hanna-Barbera- William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were really big back in the day, they created the company in 1957 there prime time for making Television cartoons was between 1957 and 1969 with cartoons like; The Ruff and Reddy Show,Yogi Bear,The Quick Draw McGraw Show in 1959, The Honeymooners,Scooby and the Flintstones which ran for 6 seasons on ABC prime time it used to be the longest running prime time show until The Simpsons ruled it out in 1996. Hanna Barbera chnaged the cartoon world for kids and adults.

Seth Macfarlane

Seth is the creator of Family Guy and the co creator of American Dad and The Cleaveland show,He also directed TED and TED 2. After graduating from Rhode Island school of design her was recruited to Hanna Barbera for several tv shows; Johnny Bravo,Cow and chicken,Dexters laboratory,Iam weasel and Larry and Steve. The work of Family Guy has put this man in the spotlight which was made in 1999 which has given Seth a staggering net worth of approximately $150 million . Family Guy is an adult cartoon animation of a family. Most adults hate Family Guy because of the language and stupidity it sends out to the youth but most teens love the tv show. It is one of the most known adult animations alongside of The Simpsons and South Park. Each episode of family guy costs around $2 million. The four voice actors that aren't done my Seth earn around $225,000 per episode. Its fair to say that Seth has saved himself a lot of money from doing most of the voices himself. Family guy has hooked loads of viewers over the years I could not live without the golden comedy.

The work of 2 key animators from 2 diffrent time periods

John Aryton Paris was the creator of the Thaumatrope
The first ever analogue type of animation was the thaumatrope which was a very popular toy in the 19th century, it is a very simple structure with 2 drawings on either side, one side could be a drawing of a bird and on the other side a drawing of a bird cage. Then if you put a loop of elastic band on either side of the disk and spin you will see the illusion and it will look like the bird is stuck in the cage if done right. Even though the invention was made many many years ago it is still seen around in movies such as :Hugo the film where in the final scene a conversation about cinema precursors falls in line which included a thaumatrope, also in the film Sleepy Hollow Johnny Depp uses a thaumatrope. In 2012 a discovery was made in a cave somewhere in France. The traumatrope was the first instrument to use the persistence of images on the retina. This stimulation made a combination of instruction and amusement for kids, This made Paris realise.

2 key animators.

WALT DISNEY

The founder of Disney which owns Dreamworks and Pixar is pretty much the king of animation. To date most of the animation movies made now are coming from Disney, to this date Disney production are responsible for making 492 animation movies and has a net worth of $5billion

In 1940 the animation film Pinocchio was made which is a musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions. The original Pinocchio was made Carlo Colloid.   This is a link to the original Pinocchio trailer.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKAX3IjyluQ

Tray Parker\Matt Stone

Tray Parker and Matt Stone are two of my favourite animators who created South Park 

Describing how animation works.

Animation is just still pictures that move. Animations can be made by drawing or coding. For example if you draw a cat jumping in different stages and move from one drawing to another really quick it will create an illusion that the cat is jumping.This can be made using a flip book animation technology. All you have to have is a not pad and something to draw with.

The first ever analogue type of animation was the thaumatrope which was a very popular toy in the 19th century, it is a very simple structure with 2 drawings on either side, one side could be a drawing of a bird and on the other side a drawing of a bird cage. Then if you put a loop of elastic band on either side of the disk and spin you will see the illusion and it will look like the bird is stuck in the cage if done right.

The Zoetrope is a cylinder with slits in all around the shape, inside the zoe trope a band with drawn images is fitted neatly, once you turn the Zoetrope at a average speed you can look through the slits and watch the animation that has been drawn on the band. The Zoe trope gets his name from the Greek term Zoe which means life and trope which means turning. The zoe trope was created in 1833 by the mathematician William George Horner.

Traditional animations 
The first film accorded animation which was called Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton in 1904

Walt Disney and the Warner Bros.


1923 a company called laugh-o-grams went bankrupt, the owner of this company was called Walt Disney, after that he started a new company in LA their first animations were Alice comedies. The made their breakthrough in 1928 from steamboat willie, it was the first animation to have sound

The television era

  Colour TV was introduced in US in 1951 and 7 years later Hanna Barbere realesed Huckleberry Hound, Hanna Barbere also made a popular cartoon in 1940 called Tom and Jerry Hanna and Barbera made 114 shots for Tom and Jerry between 1940 and 1957 

The first ever animation film that was completely made from CGI was made it 1995, that was called Toy Story...The rest is history.    Another great sitcom animation is The Simpsons, created by Matt Georging it is the most well known cartoon to date having over 550 episodes the amazing show first appeared on December 17th in 1989. Matt Georgeing has a net worth of over $500 million but not all of that money has come from Simpsons, he also made a sitcom animation called Futurama.