Cell based animation is when a person or people draw a load of different pictures that have the drawings moving bit by bit, when they are all played together it gives life to the drawings and makes them look like they are moving, this happens when the brain is tricked into thinking the drawings are moving when they are not.
Snow White - 1937
Snow white was the first successful animated film to be made. Disney made this film by drawing each individual cells and where the drawing only moved a bit at a time, this took 2 - 3 years to be completed. It took this long because foe every 25 images a second of film was complete, this meant the film was very smooth looking when they played it back
Flip-book animation
This is an example of flip book animation, there have been countless flip-books animation over the year because they are so easy to do without any special equipment. Flip-books first came out in 1868 by a man called John Barnes Linnett, he named it a 'kineograph' which means moving picture.
Cinderella 1950
Cinderella was created by Walt disney studios in 1950, each individual cell was drawn over a long period of time. Cinderella is still watched today and has even been re-maked into HD. Cinderella has been a huge success for Disney.
Bagpuss was made in 1974 in the UK, it was a children's TV series made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate. In 1999 Bagpuss was named the top children's TV show. The program would start with the litter girl leaving the room and then bagpuss coming to life, Bagpuss is a pink and white striped cat that is also a stuffed toy not a real cat which is why it only came to life when no human was in the room.
Tim Burton 1982
Vincent
Vincent was a stop motion animation based on horror, it was one of the first big things Tim Burton has done. It was shown by Walt Disney. Tim Burton is still doing work today and also directed the London Olympics opening and closing event.
Nick Park's A Grand Day Out 1989
This claymation was made in 1989 by Nick Parks. Wallace and Gromit is still being shown today and have made many more TV programs and films. In 2005 the factory where Wallace and Gromit was made burnt down and many of their models were lost.
