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During World War II, animation became a common medium for propaganda. The US government contracted its best studios to work for the war effort. To instruct service personnel about all kinds of military subjects and to boost morale, Warner Bros. was contracted for several shorts and the special animated series Private Snafu.
The pictures are evenly spaced radially around a disc, with small rectangular apertures at the rim of the disc. The animation could be viewed through the slits of the spinning disc in front of a mirror. It was invented in November or December 1832 by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and almost simultaneously by the Austrian Simon von Stampfer ...
The first CGI animation with motion blur effects and squash and stretch motion. 2010: The Year We Make Contact: Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere is CGI-rendered, mostly during the black spot shots. Tony de Peltrie: 1985 First CGI-animated human character to express emotion through his face and body language. [30] The Jetsons & Yogi's Treasure Hunt
World War II changed the possibilities for animation. Prior to the war, animation was mostly seen as a form of family entertainment. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a turning point in its utility. On December 8, 1941, the United States Army began working with Walt Disney at his studio, stationing Military personnel there for the duration of the ...
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 ...
Animation in the United States during the silent era (1900s–1920s) Golden age of American animation (1920s–1960s) World War II and American animation (1940s) Animation in the United States in the television era (1950s–1980s) Modern animation in the United States (1980s–present)
The analog computer Whitney used to create his most famous animations was built in the late 1950s by converting the mechanism of a World War II M-5 antiaircraft gun director. [3] Later, Whitney would augment the mechanism with an M-7 mechanism, creating a twelve-foot-high machine. [ 3 ]
The war (along with the strike) shook Walt Disney's empire, as the US Army had seized Disney's studio as soon as the US entered World War II in December 1941. [56] As a result, Disney put the feature films Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Wind in the Willows (1949), Song of the South (1946), Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947) and ...