stop motion level 3: The Beginning Of Animation

George Melies

George Melies was a illusion magician he saw his first moving picture in 1895 and later the began creating his own. Melies is one of the most memorable animators still known to this day, By accident he discovered that he could use stop motion photography to render trick effects. He created special effects not by using electrical effects but instead using cut outs to manipulate futuristic effects within his animations.

The most famous of his work is a moving picture called "a trip to the moon" which was created in 1902 which portrayed his idea of what the future world would be like and how it would be for man to take a trip to the moon.
"a trip to the moon- George Melies"

Aswell as his unique style of moving pictures Melies was also the first to use movie techniques such as fading in and out and the dissolve to create the first real narrative film.

Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay is well known as being the first great cartoon animator, he is mostly known for the creation of Gertie the dinosaur where he created moving cartoon images of a dinosaur. When McCay's children were born, a son in 1896 and a daughter in 97 this prompted him to take up a new job to support his family as a cartoonist/reporter for Cincinnati Commercial tribune. while working here he did a lot of freelance work for magazines which involved creating comic strips, at this time comic strips were extremely popular this prompted McCay to start creating his own ideas like "little Sammy sneeze" and "rarebit fiend" he did these two pieces for the New York telegram. McCay's popularity increased and he began performing on Vaudeville doing speed drawings of various characters including the two he created. After a few years McCay left his job at the tribune to take up a new job oportunity with Hearst a New York newspaper. During his time here he began to experiment with the idea of using animated pictures as part of his speed drawing act his first attempt was with a character called "little Nemo" it was a success and this led to the development of Gertie the Dinosaur, Which was to become a feature film.

Lotte Reiniger

Compared to the previous animator Lotte Reiniger a German animator had a different way of producing moving images for animation. Where the other two used either people or cartoons, Reiniger used silhouette paper cut outs with certain limbs able to move to bring the illusion to life.
The style of animation had never been seen before which made Reiniger extremely popular. Her unique style which stood out to the eye was astounding. Each individual character that she created was hand cut.

"The art of Lotte Reiniger"

Reiniger created many childhood fairytales that are still told today stories such as Cinderella, Jack and the beanstalk, Hansel and gretle, the from prince and many many more.
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Walt disney

Walt Disney is the most known animator in the entire world. He was born in 1901 in Chicago Illinois. He attended McKinley high school during the day but when night came attended the Academy of fine arts.

"His talents were first used in a silent cartoon entitled Plane Crazy. However, before the cartoon could be released, sound was introduced upon the motion picture industry. Thus, Mickey Mouse made his screen debut in Steamboat Willie, the world's first synchronized sound cartoon, which premiered at the Colony Theater in New York on November 18, 1928." - http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/biography/long_bio.html

Steamboat Willie.

Disney has grew and grew and is still growing from re-creations of old fairytales and new stories created by Disney. Disney later opend a TV channel called 'Disney channel' which can be viewed on satalite TV. Aswell as this they also opened up a Disney Land theme park In Orlando Florida and Paris. You can stay at the Disney trademark castle, cast members dress as characted from films and books and ride the Disney themed rides at the park itself.