Happy Birthday, Animation...

[uftaki]

Just stumbled across one very cool link. 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of animation... Here's the link to the article, which contains a link to a video file of the first actual "animated film" made... :3 Animation's 100th Birthday

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[seattleotaku.livejournal.com]

Interesting link (thanks!)... And a "Woot!" despite the rest of this. *hehe*

(Formatting glitches... I hates it! Heh)

But I can't help reading into the caveats they use, too... the first "American animation", the first "sequential drawings of characters acting and reacting to each other". "Stop motion animation" becomes "stop motion ... techniques related to animation". So, for instance, the "Humpty Dumpty Circus" of toy animals and acrobats (stop-motion before 1900) isn't "animation"? His drawn characters came before drawn balls and lines and other early tests?

I find it hard to simply apply "first animation" to it.

Okay, so I'm a geek. ^_^

[uftaki.livejournal.com]

Hmm.... that's definately interesting. o__o I didn't know about the stop-motion animation. That's definately an interesting thing, too. :D So... the technique of animation is over 100 years old...

Maybe this was just the first drawn animation, then? ._.; *shrug*