The developement of Animation and the People
A
history of pioneers that experimented with different takes on
movement of images/photography and drawings had developed different
types of animations that have now been developed immensely with
digitalizing animation via computers etc. Some of these famous
pioneering animators are of how animation has come about.
In
1831 there was a Belgian scientist named Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau
and along side with his was Dr. Simon Rittrer. They both constructed
a machine called a phenakitscope. A phenakitscope was a deception
that the rotating disk containing small windows, and another disk
behind it that has images on it formed an animation effect, as it
moved to the correct speed that it should be spun.

Some
of the developers of animation were Willis O’Brien who was a motion
picture special effects and stop-motion animator. He was well known
for his work on the visual effects on movies such as ‘The Lost
World’, ‘King Kong’ and ‘Mighty Joe Young’. Willis
O’Brien’s work was influenced by Thomas A. Edison who is an
inventor of phonography, the motion picture camera etc. As O’Brien’s
film ‘The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy’
was noticed by Edison, O’Brien was hired by the Edison company to
animate a series of short films also keeping to the prehistoric
theme. Working closely with Willis O’Brien was Ray Harryhausen, a
stop-motion model animator. Harryhausen along with Pete Peterson
worked closely with O’Brien making the film ‘Mighty Joe Young’
with the stop-motion animation. Ray Harryhausen developed his own
brand of stop-motion animation, which was known as “Dynamation”.
These pioneering developers work closely together in order to create
one visual aspect of animation. Using different styles of animation
to combine their methods of creating animation into one production of
animation to make success.