The History of animation

I am amuse to know that early animations dated 5.200 years old,  I am talking about the bowl found in Iran in 1970, that have a sequential drawing of a goat, so  when you spin it you can see the goat moving around...that is amazingly clever!!http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/oldest-animation-discovered-in-iran/Another early animation is call Zoetrope, that is a device that produce an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures, It was created in china around 180 AD. This device used to hang over a lamp, and pictures painted on the panels would appear to move if the device is spun at the right spin.

The modern zoetrope was invented in 1984 by a British mathematician. Similar device was invented at the sane time in Belgium and Ausria giving them a different names.
In 1980 the film maker Bill Brand installed a type of linear zoetrope in the New York's subway; It consisted of a linear wall with 228 slit in the face. Behind each slit was a hand painted panel. Riders in subway moving past the display saw a motion picture within. After that a guy call Joshua Spodek develop a class of linear zoetrope that saw the firs commercial success in Atlanta subway system. Since, this class of linear zoetrope was used in different overground around the world.
Studio Ghibli and Pixar are using zoetrope in exhibition and museums.

29 October 2011 04:50 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope