Animation

History

For a more in-depth look at the history of animation, please see the Wikipedia articles "Animated cartoon" and "History of Animation".

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Animated cartoon - History of Animation

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The major use of animation has always been for entertainment. However, there is growing use of instructional animation and educational animation to support explanation and learning.

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Instructional animation - Educational animation

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The "classic" form of animation, the "animated cartoon", as developed in the early 1900s and refined by Walt Disney and others, requires up to 24 distinct drawings for one second of animation. This technique is described in detail in the article Traditional animation.

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Animated cartoon - Walt Disney - Traditional animation

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Because animation is very time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the majority of animation for TV and movies comes from professional animation studios. However, the field of independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios (and sometimes by a single person). Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation industry.

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TV - Independent animation - 1950s

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Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation process. This method was pioneered by UPA and popularized (some say exploited) by Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by other studios as cartoons moved from movie theaters to television. It is also the basis of animation.

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Limited animation - UPA - Hanna-Barbera - Movie theater - Television - Animation

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