Joseph Plateau Joseph Plateau was a Belgian physicist who was considered to be one of the very

first people ever to create the illusion of a moving image, in 1829 Joseph Plateau thought of the
ideas that would eventually become the phenakistoscope, it wasnt actually until 1839 that he
started working on it and then in 1841 the phenakistoscope. The phenakistoscope is a machine
that has a disc in it with several images all around it, it would fit inside and then you would turn
the handle and the images would move so fast the the images would blur together to give the
illusion that it was a moving. Joseph Plateau was very proud of this, Though an Austrian inventor
called Simon Von Stampfer invented a very similar machine the same year which left him with a
lot of competition.

Emile Reynaud Charles Emile Reynaud was a French animator who made some of the first cartoons
in history, in the 1870s during his 30s he made lots of short animation cartoons with his world
famous invention, the Praxiniscope, very similar to the Zoetrope which was created by William
Horner, it would have a wheel of images on the inside and you would have to turn a lever to make
the images blur together to make one short production. He then later on in the 1880s and 1890s
went to make short movies, these were very successful.

Jan Shankmajer Jan Shankmajer is Czech filmmaker and artist, he currently 80 years old, he is a
developer surrealism and brought into adult mainstream films, with example Alice and Little Otik,
Little Otik came out in the year 2000 and was considered a very unnerving and unique film about a
woman who loses her child and then finds a log and carves into the shape of a baby and then
strange things turn out to happen to the baby. Jan has won many awards over his life and his most
recent award was FIAF award in July 10
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2014.

Brother Quay The brother quay are American twins who take their inspiration from Jan
Shankmajer, most of their films are inspired by Eastern Europe culture. Their film style is called
avant-garde, they consider themselves avant-garde film-makers and animators, they are both 67 and
still live in America. The Quay Brothers love to create films that the critics would often call surreal
and which usually involve inanimate objects coming to life. Their films have incredible frames per
second and are very disturbing which is a different take on most other animators, Their storyline is a
little odd at times but can really prove to be dark.

Fodhla Cronin OReilly Fodhla OReilly is an Irish filmmaker who is based in London, UK. She is most
famous for her films, The case of Regina Scallisi and Head over Heels. She was actually nominated for
an award

TV Animation Animation has grown tremendously on television for years, in the 90s and early
2000s animation was very popular on kids channels because people were finally making it more
professional. Such programs involve, Morph, SpongeBob Squarepants and Wallace and Gromit. Not
only was it on television channels but it would in music videos too, artists like to do things differently
and animation has been growing huge in the last 20 years so it seemed like a unique thing to do and
people still make animated music videos to this date, some very well known animated music videos
would be, Peter Gabriels Sledgehammer, Feel Good by the Gorrilaz and Leave me alone by Michael
Jackson.

Cinema talk about animation in movies and how its grown with films like companies like Aardman
and Tim Burton. Cinema as well is something that has grown tremendously over the years, so many
big companies release many animations which are widely recognised all over the world. Animation
has been around for a long time but it wasnt until Tim Burton released The night before Christmas
that animation was made very popular with modern culture and was then seen more frequent in
cinemas. Some example of famous animated movies would be, Wallace and Gromit the curse of the
ware rabbit by Aardman animations, Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli and Toy Story by Disney and
Pixar animation studios.