Category: Animation

In any job interview, there is a set of common questions that almost all interviewers will ask you in one form or another.  The questions will typically relate to your…

The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals was a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck that compiled a list of the 50 greatest animated cartoons of…

Stop motion (pop. frame-by-frame) is a generic general term for an animation technique which makes static objects appear to move. The object is moved by very small amounts between individual…

Clay animation is one of many forms of stop motion animation; specifically, it is the form where each animated piece, either character or background, is “deformable“, i.e. a malleable substance,…

Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of…

3D computer graphics are works of graphic art created with the aid of digital computers and 3D software. The term may also refer to the process of creating such graphics,…

Animated television series History of animation List of Disney animated features List of computer-animated films List of stop-motion films List of package films (feature-length compilations of animated short films) List…

Film Country Notes The Apostle El Apóstol Argentina 1917: The world’s first animated feature film, by Quirino Cristiani. All copies believed to be lost in a fire in 1926. Without…

1917: Cel animation, El Apóstol 1926: Silhouette animation (Stop-motion), The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1931: Synchronized sound, Peludópolis 1935: Puppet animation (Stop-motion), The New Gulliver 1937: Technicolor, Snow White and…

1917: Argentina, El Apóstol (also the world’s first) 1926: Germany, The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1935: USSR, The New Gulliver 1937: France, The Tale of the Fox (first released in…