http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/07/05/animation-pioneers/
5 early animation before Walt Disney by: Cohl who made Fantasmagorie in 1908 considered the father of the animation cartoons. George Melies who made the prolific egg en 1902. Winsor McCay who made little Nemo in 1911. Stuart Blackton who made the enchanted drawing in 1900 and the work of a photographer Eadweard J. Mybridge in 1893, that isn´t animation, He made photograph of animals in motion but was one of the early experiments whitin animation.

http://vimeo.com/31956969hand drawing animation

Amazing animation by a French graphic designer call Olivier Beaudoin. It look 2D but I think is made with a 3D software because the animation have this perspective and depth that 3D programs does.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPfTlpCKaw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO4PlvIE6bkThe amazing Mr Bickford by Bruce Bickford. An animator who work with clay animation. He is famous because of his collaboration with Frank Zappa in the 70s. He works with stop motion making disturbing and shocking transformations with plasticine.

British museum project. This is my latest animation. I used hand drawing animation as a technique and I made my drawing with ink. The animation got this yellow colour because I wanted to look like old, like the thing kept in a museum. I am not very happy with the editing and is something I would like to improve. for instance, the music is not properly set up not having fade in and out when is needed, and some sound effect are missing.
Overall, I am very happy with the final result.

Lcc group animation 2011. This project was an animation group we did with the sound student in London College of Communication. I wrote the script and the mood board in the pre production stage, so the animation is based in my ideas. In the production, I did all the sand animation bit and the other guys did the flash bit. In the post production; I did the title and credits and the other guys did the editing; The techniques we used were: hand drawing animation in flash and sand animation in a multiplane set up rostrum camera. I enjoy so much the production process because, I was in charge of the sand animation and the process was about experimentation; first, because I changed the colour of the sand using different food coloring and food spices. second, because I play with the sand in the shooting and was a very good experience.
In the beginning I felt that the animation was somehow unfinished, perhaps because all the problems that bring to work with other people. However, I felt very please of the final result after we polished it.

MICKEY MOUSE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse
Mickey mouse is the most recognizable character of Walt Disney studios. He was created in order to get the right by the company in 1928, because his predecessor Oswald the lucky rabbit was taken away with most of Disney staff by Universal in a plot: Walt Disney refuse to deal with Universal and after finished the last Oswald the lucky rabbit cartoons he contractually owed universal, he created the new Disney studios. After that, He make sure He owned all the rights of every character make by his company.
Mickey's body design was made by circles in order to make the animation movements more easy. Mickey saw his debut in New York on November 18, 1928, in a sort animation film call Steamboat Willie, and since, He has been the most successful character ever created.I would like to mention that in the early Mickey mouse days. the very Walt Disney was the voice!!