The History and Future of Animation

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The word animate comes from the Latin word anima, meaning soul; the literal translation is "to give life to." Animation is exactly that -- giving life or movement, motion or even a voice to an otherwise inanimate object. For centuries people have made efforts to put motion into drawings; recently an earthen goblet approximately 5000 years old was found in Iran with drawings of a goat jumping into a tree to eat leaves. (Lealos) Similar sequential series type drawings have been found in Egyptian hieroglyphics and cave drawings.

Across time and worldwide many ideas and creations have contributed to the animations of today. Most started as toys based on optical illusion. In 1824 Peter Roget published an article telling of persistence of vision. Roget argued that the "retina holds images for a fraction of a second before being replaced by the following images." (randomhistory.com) This perception of one image blending to the next, as in the individual frames of animation, gave the illusion of movement. Amazing really what the mind's eye might see. Following the publication of Roget's article many novelties were created to demonstrate the theory.

The thaumatrope invented in 1825 by Dr. John Paris, was first of the persistence of vision toys and the simplest to make. It consisted of a round disk with a bird drawn on one side and cage drawn on the other. The disc was held by strings on each side that when wound caused the disk to spin and the images would merge to appear as a bird in the cage.

The phenakistiscope was invented in 1832 by Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau. This is a disc fixed at its center so it can spin freely. Drawings in a sequential series went around the disk and slits were cut evenly spaced around the edge o...

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