William Horner

William Horner

William Horner invented the Zoetrope in 1834 and he first named it a Daedalum (wheel of the Devil).  The Zoetrope was inspired by  Plateau's invention which was  called the phenakistoscope. Horner's invention somehow became forgotten for nearly thirty years until 1867, when it became patented in England by M. Bradley,   Lincoln renamed the Daedalum, giving it the name of zoetrope, or wheel of life.

The Zoetrope was based on another pioneers invention which was Plateau's phenakistoscope. Horner's invention strangely became forgotten of for nearly thirty years until 1867, when it became patented in England by M. Bradley, and in America by William F. Lincoln.  Lincoln renamed the Daedalum, changing the name to zoetrope (wheel of life)

            Examples :

Who's Knocking At The Door, a French zoetrope from the 1870

A Couple Waltzing, by Eadweard Muybridge, 1893

A soldier on horseback

Comets and Planets

Geometry

Now here is an example of one of my favorite , the amount of time and the detail put into this makes it so interesting and gives a little chill down the spine because of the way the woman turns into a monster.

Wills O'Brien

Wills O'Brien

The father of "stop-motion" animation, Willis O'Brien (born in 1886 died in 1962) was a Hollywood special effects innovator known for his work using small models of a gorilla in "King Kong". O'Brien's pioneering efforts transformed the possibilities of film making, inventing a new kind of visual language later exploited by others in movies such as "Jaws" and "Alien"

One day, while making models with his friend, an idea was born. Young O'bie recognized that he could animate the models on the same kind of way that cartoonists used to animate drawings: by building a model and then moving it's parts one frame of film at a time, he could give the models cinematic life. Though this process of stop-motion animation had been invented and used already

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. 

Brief introduction to Stop Animation

A brief history of stop motion animation

Stop motion animation has been around for a long time,almost as long as traditional film making. Originally stop motion involved animating objects which included the animated movement of' any 'non-drawn' such as toys, blocks or any inanimate object you  wish to use. Animators experimented with clay animation and puppet animation e.g. Wallace and Gromit, Flushed Away etc.

Some early examples of stop motion films and techniques can be seen in the 'The Humpty Dumpty Circus' (1898) and in 'Fun in a bakery Shop' (1902). In 1907 'The Haunted Hotel' was a very successful movie with the cinema audience of the time. In 191 one of the first clay animation movies using stop motion was released to great critical acclaim. It was called 'Modeling Extraordinary' In 1916,the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She released her first clay film in 1917.