Welcome to the Frontiers in Animation webpage! This site will help you inform about important aspects of animation and how it has shaped and formed some people's lives. This site also will inform of you of frontiers- the frontiers of the different techniques and styles used in animation that people would probably consider breakthroughs. As a sidenote, this project got an 89%, which is a B+.

Matchstick figures were animated from as back as 1908.

Animation is the illusion of movement and life in an object done by hand drawn images, a media in which the action of exchanging images simulate motion. To put in simpler terms, it's someone's imagination on paper. People feel they watch these things to escape from reality, and that it's a great illusion too. It portrays real emotions, ranging from exuberance to miserableness.

Gertie the Dinosaur likes to dance.

Since when civilization started, people have been trying to add a sense of motion into their art. Of course, they couldn't, because technology was lacking back then. In 1832, Joseph Plateau invented a Phenakistoscope, a spinning paper disc which had a number of pictures, and gave the illusion that the image was moving. There also have been other inventions such as the zoetrope and the prazinoscope that helped evolve animation. Life and personality in drawn characters in animation can be traced back as far as 1908, where Émile Cohl did his five minute Drama Among the Puppets. Winsor McCay of the United States of America produced Little Nemo in Slumberland in 1911, and Gertie the Dinosaur in 1909, which basically animated an effect that a comic strip would have on a person. It took approximately 10,000 illustrations.

Since then, to everyone's surprise, this new art of animation had the power to make the audience actually relate to the emotions of an animated character. Many other pioneers in animation consist of Lotte Reiniger and Berthold Bartosch, who both experimented with new techniques in animation. If you would like to know more, please click on one of the subjects on the menu to the left.