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First TV program to feature a live computer-generated character as part of its cast. VeggieTales: First completely computer-animated direct-to-video release. Insektors [38] First fully computer-animated TV series. First use of character animation in a computer-animated television series. The Crow: 1994
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
The history of animation, the method for creating moving pictures from still images, has an early history and a modern history that began with the advent of celluloid film in 1888. Between 1895 and 1920, during the rise of the cinematic industry, several different animation techniques were developed or re-invented, including stop-motion with ...
1983 – He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Golgo 13: The Professional, The Wind in the Willows, Crusher Joe, Inspector Gadget, Henry's Cat, Abra Cadabra, The Biskitts, Rock & Rule (first animated feature film to use computer graphics), Katy, Fire and Ice, Mrs. Pepperpot (TV series ...
This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis. With “Missing Link” landing in ...
The early history of animation covers the period up to 1888, when celluloid film base was developed, a technology that would become the foundation for over a century of film. Humans have probably attempted to depict motion long before the development of cinematography .
Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Plane Crazy, one of the earliest golden-age shorts.. The golden age of American animation was a period that began with the popularization of sound synchronized cartoons in 1928 and gradually ended in the 1960s when theatrical animated shorts started to lose popularity to the newer medium of television.
An example of computer animation which is produced from the "motion capture" techniqueComputer animation is the process used for digitally generating moving images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both still images and moving images, while computer animation only refers to moving images.