50 Greatest Cartoons
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 all-time as voted upon...
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Stop motion
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 frames, producing the effect...
Clay Animation
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, usually plasticine clay. The...
Computer animation
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, though...
3D animation
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, or the field of...
Useful Links
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 of children’s films Academy...
Lost/unfinished films
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 a Trace Sin dejar...
First in techniques
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 the Seven Dwarfs 1961:...
Each Country’s First Animated Movie
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 Berlin, but most of...
2007 onwards (upcoming films)
Upcoming films This article or section contains information about one or more scheduled or expected films. The content may change as the film’s release approaches and more information becomes available. 2007 (future) 2004: A...
