Events in 1868 in animation. Specific date unknown: In 1868, the physicist James Clerk Maxwell had an improved zoetrope constructed. Instead of slits,...

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted...

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method provided basically endless possibilities to make different 3D animations. He then introduced two methods to animate stereoscopic pairs of images...

motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually...

For the history of animation after the development of celluloid film, see history of animation. The early history of animation covers the period up to...

18 March 1868, when it was patented by John Barnes Linnett under the name Kineograph ("moving picture"). They were the first form of animation to employ...

Events in 1871 in animation. October 10: Thomas Ross received British Patent 2685 for an improved version of his small transparent phenakistiscope system...

Events in 1870 in animation. February 5: The Philadelphia-based engineer Henry Renno Heyl presented his Phasmatrope to 1500 persons at a church entertainment...

Events in 1866 in animation. July 27: The inventor William Ensign Lincoln applied for a U.S. patent for his zoetrope, as an assignor to the board game...