The first instance of animation was produced was in 1833 with the invention of the phenakistiscope, which is a device that produced the illusion of motion. You probably have seen those rotary devices which have a sequence of drawings inside that, when you spin it, will make it look like the drawings are moving.
From that point, we fast-track to the early 20th century, when some of the more familiar animated scenes like Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur appear. Although it wasn't until the debut of Steamboat Willie that animation would begin its rapid rise and development into more advanced technologies.
Walt Disney, obviously, had a huge hand in putting animation into the forefront with dozens of short animated features and full-length feature films like Snow White and the Seven Dwafs. From the 1930s until the 1960s, Disney was prolific, churning out classics such as Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan.
For much of animation's history, they have mostly been hand-drawn or stop-motion, until the advent of computer-generation 3D animation, which now dominates much of the animated film industry. And so with the short video above, let's look through the evolution of animation from its earliest beginnings to what it has become today.
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