Week One - The History of Animation

To fully understand Flash animation, it is important to understand the history of the technique, from the idea of "persistence of vision" and the devices and inventors that exploited this theory to create moving images, from still images.

Using a range of sources from Books to the Internet I have learned about the history of animation. Although I have always had an intrest in the technique and have often made 3D animations, it has been intresting to understand the history and development. If anything, the 2D animation history is the basis of moving image and film in general, as the devices used to create these images were what would be used to create film capture.