Do you know how and from where the computer animation came❓
It's interesting to note that the concept of animation has been a focus of study and research for a long time. Resources indicate that as far back as in 1824, Peter Roget presented a paper titled "The persistence of vision with regards to moving objects" to the British Royal Society. Later in 1887, famous scientist Thomas Edison started his research into motion pictures. Two years later, he announced his kinetoscope, which projected a 50ft length of film approximately 13 seconds. Winsor McCay is considered by many to produce the first popular animation. He used rice paper to draw images each were slightly different from the other. Later, John Bray in 1910 used translucent cells (short for celluloid) in compositing multiple layers of drawing into a final image as well as the use of grey scale (as opposed to black and white) drawings. Later, in 1915, Fleischer patented 'roto scoping'. Roto scoping is drawing images on cells by tracing over previously recorded live action. Many such innovative ideas were put to tets before Walt Disney burst into the scene with his film "Alice in Wonderland" in which live action was combined with the cartoon characters. Later, In 1928, Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound called "Mickey Mouse".
Some of the innovative techniques used by Disney were the use of storyboard to review the story, the use of pencil sketches to review motion and multi-plane camera stand. Multi-plane camera stand is a powerful technique, proposed in 1998 in Patent which allows a sort of parallax effect, moving the background at different rates as the observer pans across the environment to create an illusion of depth and Zooming.
In 1964, the scene of animation shifted to computers for the first time when Ken Knowlton, while working at Bell Laboratories, started developing computing techniques for producing animated movies. The university of Utah is said to be amongst the earlier pioneers in computer graphics. In the late sixties, Chuk Csuri of the Ohio State University did some initiatory work in computer animation as a member of the Computer Graphics Research Group.In the early 80s, the research group became the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design and continues to produce computer animation. Since then, the scene of computer animation has remained dynamic with new ideas and path-breaking innovations. Some of the current activity centers include University of Toronto's computer Science Department, UC San Diego's Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of North Carolina's Computer Science Department and MIT's Media Lab and MIT's Lap for Computer Science.
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DeleteIt's really an informative article as you described in the starting like get information about the animation, so good to see the research done by you, but some lines could be added in the end so people can find out how this information can help them.
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ReplyDeleteIt is very useful article for taking information from your blog atul. But In this article there are two words which means I did not understand. Those two words one is rice paper and the second is translucent. Could you tell me the meaning in which way you use this words in your article.
ReplyDeleteBasically rice paper is a kind of thin paper which were used to create animation and nowadays it is used in removing oil from foods like chips and this paper is similar to tissue paper.
DeleteTranslucent is a term in science which means a object from which we can see but not clearly it shows a blur image.