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Animation
Focus on storytelling, characters, several different types (traditional, 2D, 3D, stop motion, motion design)
Types of animation
Traditional, 2D, 3D, stop motion, motion design
Motion design sort of falls in the overlap between…
Animation and Graphic Art
Motion Design
Injects movement into graphic elements; strong emphasis on design
principles and integration into a design piece
Matter-of-fact more than
narrative; draws attention to key points to
boil down complex ideas
Malika Favre
Illustrator most known for her New Yorker covers
Mathieu Maillefer
Animator (worked with Malika Favre)
Ordinary Folks
Motion design company; works with the Bible app

What is this?
3000 BC
Shahr-e Sukhteh → Goat jumping

What is this?
1500 AD
Vetruvian man
Static illustration implying movement

What is this?
1600s
Magic lantern

What is this?
1820s
Thaumatrope (string and disk)

What is this?
1831
Phenakistoscope

What is this?
1834
Zoetrope (like the phenakistoscope but a drum shape)

What is this?
1868
Kineograph

What is this?
1877
Praxinoscope (mirrors in a drum)
J. Stuart Blackton
Father of American animation
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (stop motion) - 1906
Émile Cohl
Father of animated cartoon
Fantasmagorie (1908) — First fully animated cartoon
What was the first fully-animated cartoon?
Fantasmagorie in 1908 by Émile Cohl
Winsor McCay
Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur
What was the first animation to use key frames in 1914?
Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay
Pat Sullivan
Supposedly the creator of Felix the cat, but likely not
Otto Mesmer
Worked for Pat Sullivan
Likely the true creator of Felix the Cat
Who was the first cartoon superstar in 1919?
Felix the Cat
Walt Disney
Co-founder of Walt Disney Productions (w/ Roy Disney)
1928 — Steamboat Willie, the first cartoon with sound on the film
What was the first cartoon with sound on the film?
Steamboat Willie by Walt Disney Productions
Max & Dave Fleischer
_____ Studios
Known for Betty Boop, Popeye, and rotoscoping (old-fashioned motion capture)
What was the first hand-drawn animated feature-length film?
Snow White in 1937
What was the birth of Bugs Bunny?
A Wild Hare in 1940
What was going on in the 1940s in the motion design world?
Early experiments with motion design
What was going on in the 1950s in the motion design world?
Expansions on motion design experiments; bringing it into the public eye
Oskar Fischinger is known as the Father of…
Visual Music
Norman McLaren is known for…
Drawing on film and pixilation
Saul Bass is known as…
The Picasso of commercial artists
(Known for cut-paper title sequences)
Maurice Binder is known for…
His OG James Bond title sequences
Pablo Ferro is known for…
Quick-cutting, split-screen and multiple images on one screen
What was the first prime-time animated series on TV?
The Flintstones in the 1960s
What was the first CGI animated film?
The Adventures of Andre and Wally B in 1984
When was Motion Graphics Inc. created?
In the 1960s
When was the Apple Mac created?
1980s
John Whitney was known as the Father of…
Motion Graphics
When did After Effects release?
1993
What was the first fully computer animated film in 1995?
Toy Story