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First Digital Animation?
Ten Events in Digital Animation
Who Invented Animation?
The first animated projection (screening) was created in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud, who was a French science teacher. Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and the Théâtre Optique in December 1888. On 28 October 1892, he projected the first animation in public
Animated Hand
1972
Westworld
1973
Produced by Ed Catmull, the short demonstrates a computer animated hand, as well as human faces. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2011.
First use of 2D computer animation in a significant entertainment feature film. The point of view of Yul Brynner's gunslinger was achieved with raster graphics
Meta Data
1971
This is an experimental 2D animated short drawn on a data tablet by Peter Foldes, who used the world's first key frame animation software, invented by Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein
Kitty
1968
A group of Russian mathematicians and physicists headed by N. Konstantinov created a mathematical model of a moving cat. A program was made for the computer BESM-4. The computer then printed hundreds of frames to be later converted to film
A ten-minute computer animated film by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer. This was awarded a prize at the 4th annual International Experimental Film Competition in Brussels, Belgium and in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The subject was a line drawing of a hummingbird for which a sequence of movements appropriate to the bird were programmed. Over 30,000 images comprising some 25 motion sequences were generated by the computer
Humming Bird
1967
First Video Game?
In 1960, a 30-second vector animation of a car traveling down a planned highway at 110 km/h was created at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology on the BESK computer. The short animation was broadcast on November 9, 1961 on national television
Highway
1961
Physicist Willy Higinbotham invents the first "video game" at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. His game, a table tennis-like game, was played on an oscilloscope
First Digital Animation?
An experimental 2D animated short by Peter Foldes drawn on a data tablet, who used the world's first key frame animation software, invented by Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein.
What was the first movie
to use CGI?
The bickering buddies were part of another watershed moment in 1995, when Toy Story became the first feature-length computer-animated movie. The entire movie was created with Computer Generated Imagery (CGI).