Animation is a beatiful form of art.

This was really informative. Taking a look back at such a diverse history of animation in a mere 10 minutes was a real pleasure. Thanks for making this.

Between 1872 and 1928 there is lots to talk about: Émile Cohl’s “Fantasmagorie,” from 1908, (one of the first hand-drawn animated films to grace purpose built cinemas). Early animators such as Windsor McCay and Max Fleisher, who’s mix of live action and animation with Gertie the Dinosaur and Out of the Inkwell were wildly popular. Lotte Reiniger who produced The Adventures of Prince Achmed; the first feature length animated film, in 1926 definitely deserves a mention.

When I was kid, I like to watch cartoons. And now as adult, I like to watch how animations was made.

god ghibli has too much power, i actually suddenly teared up with the swelling music and visuals during their clip.

An absolute lifesaver for someone also looking at this subject at school. Thanks man

The jump from 1872 to Steamboat Willie skipped over *a lot.*

Steamboat Willie was not photographed on the multiplane camera. Snow White was the first film to use it, and it's about giving depth to the backgrounds by animating different layers at different speeds, for example forground tracks faster than background. If you're teaching about animation this is basic stuff Will.

1872 jumping to 1928, the first animation with synchronised sound? That was a huge leap 😞

I'm afraid this is a little *too* brief, skipping over significant phases and not actually sticking to a chronological order. There was a lot of early animation on film before Steamboat Willie in 1928, for example. The very popular Felix the Cat cartoons that ran throughout the 20s, or the even earlier animation experiments by Windsor McCay and other pioneering animators. Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937, and set the style and tone of their later animated movies of the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Scooby Doo may have well been a good representative of the Hannah Barbara limited animation style, but it came out in 1969-1970, after several other Hannah Barbara features, like The Flinststones, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and Johnny Quest. The Flintstones started in 1960, but it was distinctive not so much for its animation as the fact that it was a prime time television show, as opposed to being shown at the movies or on Saturday mornings. Hanna Barbara's Huckleberry Hound Show started two years earlier in 1958. And what about the Fleischer studio's use of rotoscoping in the Superman cartoons in the early 40s? Or in Ralph Bakshi's animated movies in the 70s? Or if you're going to talk about stop motion animation, then why no mention of Gumby and Pokey, Art Clokey's "Claymation" style, which first appeared in 1953? And then you want to talk about animation in videos without mentioning Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer video or A-Ha's Take On Me video, or countless others that preceded your examples? So, like I said, too brief, and you skipped over some pretty major developments in animation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation

So no mentions of Fleicher Studios, the Animation company that Walt stole cell shading techniques from? Correction: Rotoscoping.

Needed to research for my film school final and this helped a ton, thank you

I am going to do a video essay or like a presentation about animation and I found that this video has the same purpose! Thanks for the information very much dude!! It is very clear and I have a better clue about my assignment now.

Lmao I have to make a whole fricking timeline document and it's due in an hour

These animators are geniuses. There are others like J Stuart Blackton & later on Lottie Reiniger that I've only just found out about besides all these listed on this video, & probably many more too. But they're all so gifted & imagine if they could see what an inspiration they are today. 👏🌝

This was beautiful. Thank you for making this video! I learned so much!

I needed this for my school homework, thank you...

So much details and information, but you only got 85 subscribers!? Dude you deserve more than that.

Congratulations! It's a very nice video, brief but with a broad view of animation

Who’s doing this for school work, I am 👇🏻

Hats off to all animators 😇

Animation is so beautiful and amazing video man :]

Damn my school used this video and we had to watch it for STEM

8:31 Amazing Rotoscoping

"Steamboat Willie" released in 1928 by Walt Disney went to the public domain on 1 Jan 2024.

I am surprised their wasn’t even a part for Max Fleischer the most important person in animation, but it did mention the rotoscope (his invention)

0:10 idk why but these few second of her bursting through the doors just freaks me out

Great video. It was definitely brief, but included some lesser-mentioned artifacts.

God Steamboat, Snow White, and Bambi give me so much nostalgia

So uh... my teacher used this video for us to summarize ... but for a moment I saw the pinned comment, I didn't know what else to say.....

So who’s here for an assignment?

5:53 Cute but scary faced doll

There was this animator, who did 16 frames per second and was very intricate and good with perspective.. I remember watching his clips called something "A Magician's.... " I don't remember him. This was probably his last project and was half done due to funding issues... Does anyone remember his name?

What about Felix the Cat?

New show ladies and gentlemen it's dots dots dots moving around. *THE END*

Watching this in 2019 is interesting

i'm going to watch a bunch of animations

gertie the dinosaur

I was looking for a short history of animation to show my high school art students. This might fit the bill! I think it was a good effort but being a visual medium, would love to see it without the captions running across the images. (just a suggestion!)

You mean to say there was no animation before 1928? Then who were Emile Cohl, Winsor McCay, and Max Fleischer? Brief history or not, you really left out a lot of the foundational work that led to Disney. Then too, which aspect of animation are you focusing on, the animated cartoon, or experimental/expressionist animation? This is a confused and misdirected piece. I'd be interested in know what grade you received.

Its amazing what human minds can achieve!

An Question?? So The Animation Stand is the Table Devise assembled fot The Filming of Animation and the Rostrum Camera is the Animation Camera used in the Television and filming movies?? Example: THE DIFFERENCE OF THE ANIMATION STAND IS A TABLE OR MACHINE TO CAPTURE THE IMAGE AND THE ROSTRUM CAMERA IS A FILMING CAMERA ?? and in what year and decade did the computer start in animation and what was the first animation studio to use the computer

Wonderful animation making

You put work into this video man :]

This also leaves out Thomas Edison. He was actually the one who did that horse animation, and ended up inventing Motion pictures for it. It was some bet he had with someone else and ended up inventing the film industry.

You seemed to missed some key historical events. Like Snow White being the first full length animated movie. The music video thing started much earlier than your showing there. You totally skip when Pixar came into the picture, just jumping right to studio gibly. There's quite few other key points missed that probably should have been in there instead of some the other more abstract points shown. Now, if this was a essay to show forgotten animation or over looked animation history, this would make more sense. I realize most college essays have to be done in time frame, but think about what is more important if trying to be historical data. Being showy is good, especially in animation or film schools, but still make sure the big key points are hit before abstracts get mentioned.

You skipped Windsor McCay who invented cel animation back in the 1910's, you left out the fact that Norman Mclaren created his soundtracks by scratching directly onto the film strip (a totally new form of synthesized sound at the time), and you started talking about Bambi as if I was happening at the same time the Hannah Barbera cartoons were being made but those came out in the 60's and Bambi was released in 1942

I wonder what grade you got on this. No Looney Tunes? Pixar?

Would have liked to seen pete's dragon and roger rabbit as the 1st examples of cartoons in live movies

This video is very helpful! Well done!

great video, surprised you didnt mention gertie the dinosaur.

Can somebody help me find the name of an animation created a long time ago? The guy who created it was called Matt but i dont remember his last name. But it was about this man and woman that were having an affair her husband was greedy and stole money from a guy next door. The guy next door died because her husband pushed him out of the window. The woman's other man with the glasses got blamed and got thrown in jail. But he escaped with a spoon. The little town or community went searching for him her husband died and the woman and the man ran off to the bushes.

Forgot Fantasmagorie in 1908 and Tom and Jerry in 1940

Nice video! Well done.

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Fantastic video!

I don't believe for a second that this came out of the 1800. Animation was definitely already discovered and mastered in the society that was destroyed before ours..

Very informative video. Thanks

3:38 got me vibin

The first cartoon was actually in France in 1908 called “Fantasmagorie” by French Emile Cohl

wow this is really cool, thank you

1:39 I mean THIS is the first movie and cinemas around the world or in the world

Wow, it's crazy to me that 'My Neighbour Totoro' came out the same year as Svankmajer's 'Alice'.

They so patient to make animation because that time they don't have internet and gadgets

Man how did you not talk about my friend Totoro and not Akira?

Amazing!

Rainbow dance was battle tendency op and Smoke weed guy

Good video, but you forgot a few animations before Steamboat Willie. Such as: - Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) - "Fantasmagorie" (1908) - Max Fleisher's animations (1920s) - The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) I'm sure other comments have covered these, but anyway there you go.

Amazing ❤️

hello! this is a really random question, but what was that sound from the beginning when the video was “going back in time”? i’ve heard the same sound on an album but i could never place it until now!

what about the 1908 French cartoon by Émile Cohl?

When people do an essay for there lecture for the teacher, when the unexpected 187 subs and 1.3K likes happen

amazing.

thanks! u helped me with my university work

Does anyone know the name of the first clip shown, of the girl running? It's really beautiful and I really wanna know who the animator is

Thank you it's verry helpful for me.❤

Faraday's wheel >> phanekistoscope >>zoetrope>>praxinoscope>>

Good effort for a college project. But there are too many gaps, as others (including myself 2 years ago) have noted: No silent film animation, no Warner, or Fleischer, or George Pal, or Ray Harryhausem. I know it's called "brief" but then don't include Bob's Burgers, instead use The Simpsons to represent current TV animation that uses Toonboom. Plus some facts are incorrect: Len Lye's film was not rotoscoped, it is processed live footage. Yellow Submarine was not commissioned by the Beatles, in fact they didn't want anything to do with it, which is why they don't provide the voices (they finally agreed to appear in the end once they saw how good it was). Also the film doesn't use direct animation.

Cool

I want part 2 this video

Amazing❤️❤️

VEEEERRRRYYYY COOOOOOOOOL!!

Like it! 👍👍

Nice video. Thanks!

wow scooby doo came out in 1957. i mean, come on.

No clips from the blockbuster White Snow (1937) and Toy Story (1995)?

Mind blown

No pixar?

And where is mentioned Karel Zeman and his unique animation mixing technic, used for example in Cesta do praveku/ Journey to the Beginning of Time 1955. Weird.

Heyyy!!! What is the japanese animation at the beginning of the video???

too brief but gets aceoss multiple styles and processes :)

No showing of Computer Animation from companies like Pixar and Dreamworks?

this was really helpful

2:06 I feel like you skipped a lot here. You skipped the creation of Felix the Cat, Gertie the Dinosaur, Plane Crazy, Out of the Inkwell, and several other big accomplishments

Nice video.

The MultipLane camera was not invented yet in 1928, that's a mistake in the video. Also Scooby Doo was not commercially running in 1957... come on...

1:43 the first cinema

Where's felix the cat?

Thanks, really helped