Cell based

What is Cell based animation?

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.




















Cinderella is a 1950 American animated film fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by RKO Radio Pictures.