Joseph Plateau

Joseph invented the very first stop motion device , which is called the phenakistoscope, this man started the revolution of stop motion animation. Joseph and his sons introduced this device in 1832 otherwise known as the 'spindle viewer'.

The Phenakistoscope, works by the use of the persistence of vision, giving the illusion of movement , which Tim Burton Wanted to create within his animations, so tim burton would have been inspired by the early workings of stop motion animation, and how to incorporate this into his animations.