2D Animation Quiz 1 Flashcards
Where the earliest art was found?
El Castillo cave in Cantabria, Spain
Some theories hold that ________ may have been a way of communicating with others
cave paintings
One of the earliest form of art dated 40 000 years ago
Cave Paintings
the Egyptian Pharaoh _______ built a temple to the goddess Isis which had 110 columns. Each column had a painted figure of the goddess in a progressively changed position.
Rameses II
Art form after cave paintings
Ancient Egyptian Writings
They sometimes decorated pots with figures in successive stages of action. Spinning the pot would create a sense of motion.
Ancient Greeks
The first attempt to project drawings onto a wall was made in ______ by ________
1640, Athonasius Kircher
The First Projector to project drawings onto a wall was called_____
‘Magic Lantern’
In 1824 He discovered the Vital principle “The persistence of vision”
Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget discovered the vital principle called ________
“The persistence of vision”
This principle rests on the fact that our eyes temporarily retain the image of anything they’ve just seen.
“The persistence of vision”
Roget’s principle gave birth to optical apparatus named __________
Thaumatrope
Invented by Dr. Plateau about 1833
The Phenakistoscope
One of the most important steps in the evolution of the motion picture
The Phenakistoscope
Another illusion toy introduced by William George Horner during 1834
Zoetrope
Same principle as Plateau’s Phenakistoscope but instead of discs the pictures and slots are combined in a rotating drum.
Zoetrope
Devised by the Frenchman Emile Reynaud in 1877.
Praxinoscope
The first flipbook was created in September 1868, when it was presented by __________ by the name ___________.
John Barnes Linnett , kineograph
was the first form of animation to employ a linear sequences of images rather than circular like phenakistoscope.
Flipbooks
__________ is a collection of combined pictures intended to be flipped over to give the illusion of movement and create an animated sequence from a simple small book or pad.
Flipbook
In 1896, a New York newspaper cartoonist
______________ interviewed the Inventor ___________ who was experimenting with moving pictures
James Stuart Blackton , Thomas Edison
Blackton did some sketches of Edison and was asked to do some series of drawings. Edison photographed these. This was the first combination of
drawings and photography.
In 1906, they publicly released ______ , where Blackton used 3000 flickering drawings to make this first animated picture
released ‘Humurous Phases of Funny Faces’
The forefather of the animated cartoon
James Stuart Blackton
Who made and showed his first animated film at the Follies Bergeres in Paris, and quoted “don’t do what camera can do – do what a camera can’t do!”
Emile Cohl
in 1911, __________ became a big hit when flashed on the screen at Hammerstein’s theatre in New York, with 4000 drawings
Little Nemo in Slumberland
___________ drew Gertie the Dinosaur and
he performed it live in front of the projected animation
Winsor McCay
One of the first interactive styled animation to be performed on stage with the artist.
Gertie the Dinosaur
1918, _______ dramatic cartoon depicting the sinking of a ship which needed 25,000 drawings
The Sinking of the Lusitania
In 1919, He created an American cartoon “Felix the Cat“ which became popular as Charlie Chaplin
Pat Sullivan
Created by Pat Sullivan which became popular as Charlie Chaplin
“Felix the Cat“