georges melies was a french illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.  he was an especially prfillic innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. 

Winsor mcCay was ana american cartoonist and animator. he is best known for the comic strip little nemo. he was a quick, profilic and technically dextrous artist. between 1911 and 1921 he self financed and animated ten films, some of which survive only as fragments. 

Lotte Reiniger was a german film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. she has made more than 40 films over her career, all using her invention. as a child she was fascinated with chinese art, and she even built her own puppy theatre, so that she could put on shows for her family and friends. 

early animation devices

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Zoetrope is a 19th century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with series of pictures on the inside of it .

phenakistoscope was an animation device that used to persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.

kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhiibion device it was designed for films to be voiewed by one individual at a time through a peephole.

mutoscope was an early motion device. it did not project on a screen and provided viewing only one individual at a time.

Persistence of Vision is where it is a still image and is where our brain is tricked into the actual move

enjoy guys!!!

having fun with my animation I hope you guys enjoy it also it is a pixilation Sequence on onion skin. I have also made it in class because I am very Intelligent and I made it with Jess. 

however I am not a Onion. 

This is a pixillation animation and it is called the skateboard and it is made by somebody called Pes

This is another pixilation animation by pes