Archive for the 'Animation Basics' Category

Father of Animation

No one really knows who is the father of animation. Some say its Georges Méliès who experimented a lot to add special effects to his films and he accidentally discovered the stop-motion animation technique where he would stop the camera and ask the actors to freeze and then replace some actors or make some of [...]

Animation Explained Further

The concept of Persistence of Vision was taken to a new level when people decided to experiment more and more with it; thus many instruments were developed on similar lines for eg. the Phenakistoscope, the Zoetrope, the Praxinoscope; and then came in the Flipbooks which I’m pretty sure most of you must have [...]

What is Animation? - Part I

Hi I’m Zeee and we would not go into the details of me; cuz we are here to talk animation (as the blog name suggests). Hmmm… So.. after watching all the Tom n Jerry episodes, the Shrek sequels, the Dragonball Z series etc. etc. I’m sure most of you are aware of what animation is [...]