Animation: A Brief History

This lecture was a fast rundown of how far animation, particularly contemporary animation has come. Animation has existed on the screen for around a hundred years, but animation as a form has existed for thousands of years. Man drew images sequentially in the form of cave paintings.


(Egyptian mural created around 4000 years ago)

The lecture went through every kind of form of animation there is in chronological order beginning with these paintings through to one the very first 'modern' animations, Fantasmagorie by Emile Cohl in 1908, to the golden age of animation with Walt Disney, through to modern 3D CGI animation with Pixar.