Eadweard Muybridge
- Eadweard James Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
- He emigrated to the United States as a young man and became a bookseller. He returned to England in 1861 and took up professional photography. learning the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions.
- Muybridge took enormous physical risks to make his photographs, using a heavyview camera and stacks of glass plate negatives.
here is an example of some of his work.
overall I think that his work is wondrous and that it would of taken large amounts of time to create, especially in the 19th century.
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
- The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean were the first filmmakers in history. They patented the cinematograph, which in contrast to Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties. Their first film, Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon, shot in 1894, is considered the first true motion picture.
- Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds.
here is an example of some of their work.
Winsor McCay
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Industrial Light & Magic
Pixar
- Zenas Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.
- In his drawing, McCay made bold, prodigious use of linear perspective, particularly in detailed architecture and cityscapes. He textured his editorial cartoons with copious fine hatching, and made color a central element in Little Nemo. His comic strip work has influenced generations of cartoonists and illustrators.
Here is an example of some of his work
Ladislas Starevich
- Vladislav Starevich, was a Russian and French stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film (i.e. The Beautiful Lukanida (1912)). He also used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films.
here is an example of some of his work
Walt Disney
- Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur,cartoonist, animator, voice actor, and film producer. As a prominent figure within the American animation industry and throughout the world, he is regarded as a cultural icon, known for his influence and contributions to entertainmentduring the 20th century. As a Hollywood business mogul, he and his brother Roy O. Disney co-founded The Walt Disney Company.
- As an animator and entrepreneur, Disney was particularly noted as a filmmaker and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created numerous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Disney himself was the original voice for Mickey. During his lifetime, he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record of four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
Here is a tour of Walt Disneyland from when Walt Disney was alive
John Halas and Joy Batchelor
- Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company founded by John Halas, a Hungarian émigré, and his wife, Joy Batchelor.
- From 1936 Halas ran a small animation unit that created commercials for theatrical distribution, and Batchelor responded to his advertisement for an assistant. Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films was founded in 1940, and during World War II the company made about 70 animated propaganda short films for the British Ministry of Information.
Here is a small cartoon that was created by john and joy
Hanna-Barbera
- Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. Was an American animation studio that dominated American television animation for nearly three decades in the mid-to-late 20th century. It was formed in 1957 by former Metro Goldwyn Mayer animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (creators of Tom and Jerry) and live-action director George Sidney in partnership with Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems television division. The company was sold to Taft Broadcasting in late 1966, and spent the next two decades as a subsidiary of the parent and its successors.
- For thirty years, Hanna-Barbera produced many successful animated shows, including The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, and The Smurfs, earning eight Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, among other merits.
here is a famous show called tom and jerry that was made from hanna-babera productions..
Cosgrove Hall
- Cosgrove Hall Films was a British animation studio founded by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall; its headquarters was in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Cosgrove Hall was once a major producer ofchildren's television and animated programmes; Cosgrove Hall's programmes are still seen in over eighty countries. The company was wound down by its then owner, ITV plc, on 26 October 2009.
this video shows how each model was created
Industrial Light & Magic
- Industrial Light & Magic is an American Academy Award–winning motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the film production company, Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when Lucas began production of the film Star Wars. For many years, particularly during the widespread inception of computer graphics in film during the 1980s, ILM was considered the leading industry standard production house for computer graphics in film; many studios other than Lucasfilm sent scenes to the studio for CGI. It is also the original founder company of the animation studio Pixar.
This video shows how ILM create there characters
Pixar
- Pixar Animation Studios, or simply Pixar, is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio is best known for its CGI-animated feature films created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc.cofounder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, a transaction that resulted in Jobs becoming Disney's largest single shareholder at the time.
here is an animated short that is created by pixar, that shows how detailed there animation can be
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