The Brief History Of Animation

Covering every aspect of animation, this course is a visual history encompassing a vast range of animation and animators

What you'll learn
We will begin with the origins of animation and Early Animation Devices
We will address animation in every period well into the present day, touching on a range of styles, techniques, innovations, and historical moments.
We will discover who is called the Father of American Animation and who made the first fully animated film using hand-drawn animation.
We will find out about the most influential person in animation, who revolutionized cartoons with sound and color!
Requirements
No prerequisites for this course
Description
We will begin with the origins of animation and Early Animation Devices, then continue with the first animated cartoons. From there, we will address animation in every period well into the present day, touching on a range of styles, techniques, innovations, and historical moments, from the invention of the multiplane camera to the computer animation revolution and everything in between.We will discover who is called the Father of American Animation and who made the first fully animated film using hand-drawn animation. We will find out about the most influential person in animation, who revolutionized cartoons with sound and color. Discover who was the first animated movie star. Plus, look at other icons of animation and the new age of TV animation. And finally, the computer animation revolution.This course covers the world history of animation however, foreign animated films have been included, based on their overall effect on American animation or on how later films were made.The main criteria for including any animation in this course were: unique artistic achievement later copied by others, technical advances, commercial success, cultural and historical importance, the setting or altering of trends as well as anything interesting that helps to tell the inspirational story of the history of animation.

Overview

Section 1: ORIGINS OF ANIMATION

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Animation before Film

Lecture 3 Photography and Film

Section 2: THE SILENT ERA

Lecture 4 Birth of the Industry

Lecture 5 Different Animation Techniques

Section 3: THE GOLDEN AGE OF ANIMATION

Lecture 6 Major Hollywood Players

Lecture 7 Limited Animation

Lecture 8 Non-US English Language Animation

Lecture 9 International Animation

Section 4: THE TELEVISION ERA

Lecture 10 The American Television Series

Lecture 11 Animation Renaissance

Lecture 12 Masters of Animation

Section 5: THE MODERN ERA

Lecture 13 Computer Animation

Lecture 14 Animation Studios and the CGI Boom

Lecture 15 Experimental Era

Section 6: THE PRESENT

Lecture 16 Present Trends and Innovations

Lecture 17 Co-production and Independent Animation

This course is for anybody interested in animation.