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.