The Evolution of Animation: A brief journey through time
Some of our fondest childhood memories belong to those lazy Sunday mornings spent watching cartoons on TV. Whether it was the iconic tales of our favourite house cat, futilely attempting to catch his adversary mouse, or the carrot-chewing rabbit humouring us repeatedly with “Eh… What’s up, doc?”, animated pictures have always captured our imagination. It is perhaps this curiosity and enthusiasm, which has led to so many dramatic changes in the animation industry, in such a short period of time.
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The difficult beginnings
People realized very quickly that pictures taken of a moving object, could be flipped through in succession, to create the illusion of a motion picture. The earliest animations were created this way; simple drawings photographed one at a time. It was obviously an extremely tedious process, and we had to wait till the development of celluloid in the 1920’s for easier methods to evolve.