Development of AnimationAndrew Clements

Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (Walt

Disney) 5th December 1901- 15th

December 1966 was an

American Pioneer business man,

animator, cartoonist, director,

producer, screen write, CEO,

entrepreneur and voice actor. (

Mickey Mouse)

Walter Disney was the creator of the most famous

animations in the Golden age of American animation

1937-41 which was Walt Disney Animation

He started animating adverts as a living before

animating and creating his own business Walt

Disney Studios

Steam Boat Willie

Walt Disney created the first ever animated film with

synchronized sound- Steam Boat Willie previous to

his achievement animation either had no sound or

was unsynchronized.

Silly Symphonies

1929-1939 Walt Disney Created 75 short animated

films this was turned into a film series.

Old Mill

In 1937 Walt Disney created the old mill, which was

a silly symphonies cartoon. This animation was a

testing ground for the animation techniques, once

they had established the multiplane camera. This is

a special motion picture camera, used in traditional

animation to give depth in the film by moving slides

at various speeds and distances

Snow White

First full length animated

film created. It was also

the first full length film in

colour (technicolour) the

film was created in 1937

using rotoscoping, this is

where they use an actor

then trace their

movements frame by

frame, to make the film

animation to look

realistic.

Fantasia

Within 1940, the first stereophonic sound for the film

fantasia was invented. Walt Disney used

stereophonic sound wich was a sound which created

the illusion of sound being played from multiple

locations.

Princess and the Frog

Walt Disney Studios created

Princess and the Frog, this was

the last ever drawn film which

Disney has made, now its all done

by CGI. Princess and the Frog

was created in 2009