Willis Harold O'Brien was born on March 2, 1886 and died on the 8th November 1962. Willis Harold O'Brien was an Irish American man that specialised in pioneering motion picture and special effects.
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O'Brien was hired by the Edison Company to produce several short films with a prehistoric theme, most notably The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1915) and the nineteen minute long The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918), the later of which helping to secure his position on The Lost World.
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen was born on June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles, California. He is an American film producer and a special effects creator, Ray Harryhausen created a brand of stop-motion model animation.
Ray Harryhausen was in Influenced by Willis O'Brien. Which then Ray Harryhausen Influenced Phil Tippett, Dennis Muren.
Ray Harryhausen was in Influenced by Willis O'Brien. Which then Ray Harryhausen Influenced Phil Tippett, Dennis Muren. Ray Harryhausen won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards in 2006.
Jan Švankmajer
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Jan Švankmajer (Czech pronunciation: jan ˈʃvaŋkmajɛr; born 4 September 1934) is a Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, Shane Acker, and many others.
Brothers Quay is Stephen and Timothy Quay who were born in Norristown, Pennsylvania June 17, 1947; they are American identical twin brothers. The Quay Brothers are influential stop-motion animators.
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They are the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play The Chairs.
Timothy W. Burton was born August 25, 1958 is an American film director film producer, writer and artist. He is known and famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, his most recent film, that is currently the second highest-grossing film of 2010 as well as the sixth highest-grossing film of all time.
Aardman Animation
An example of a Aardman Animation;
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Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is an Academy Award-winning British animation studio based in Bristol, United Kingdom. The studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit. However, it successfully entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006).
Pioneers of stop-motion animation
Joseph Plateau (Phenakitoscope)
William Horner (Zoetrope)
In 1834 William Horner invented the zoetrope, which liked to call it the Daedalum, the wheel of the devil. However, the zoetrope did not come popular till the 1860’s. Which then William F Lincoln a developer from America named it the zoetrope which means wheel of life.
Emile Reynaud (praxinoscope)
The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. Charles-Émile Reynaud invented the praxinoscope in France in 1877. Charles-Émile Reynaud improved the zoetrope by using an inner circle of mirrors, rather than using narrow viewing slits. Using mirrors would create the illusion of motion more successful than the zoetrope.
Pioneers of stop-motion animation
Joseph Plateau (Phenakitoscope)
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In 1832, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope ("spindle viewer"). It was also invented independently in the same year by Simon von Stampfer of Vienna, Austria, who called his invention a stroboscope. Plateau's inspiration had come primarily from the work of Michael Faraday and Peter Mark Roget (the compiler of Roget's Thesaurus). Faraday had invented a device he called "Michael Faraday's Wheel," that consisted of two discs that spun in opposite directions from each other. From this, Plateau took another step, adapting Faraday's wheel into a toy he later named the phenakistoscope.
William Horner (Zoetrope)
In 1834 William Horner invented the zoetrope, which liked to call it the Daedalum, the wheel of the devil. However, the zoetrope did not come popular till the 1860’s. Which then William F Lincoln a developer from America named it the zoetrope which means wheel of life.
The zoetrope worked similar to the phenakistiscope.
‘the pictures were drawn on a strip which could be set around the bottom third of a metal drum, with the slits now cut in the upper section of the drum. The drum was mounted on a spindle so that it could be spun, and viewers looking through the slits would see the cartoon strip form a moving image.’
Emile Reynaud (praxinoscope)
The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. Charles-Émile Reynaud invented the praxinoscope in France in 1877. Charles-Émile Reynaud improved the zoetrope by using an inner circle of mirrors, rather than using narrow viewing slits. Using mirrors would create the illusion of motion more successful than the zoetrope. Edward Muybridge
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Eadweard J. Muybridge (pronounced /ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ/; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was an English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.
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In December 28, 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere were credited with the world's first public film. They showed ten short films that only lasted for twenty minutes (this was their first ever public demonstration of their device they called the Cinematograph) which was held in Paris at the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines.
Eadweard J. Muybridge (pronounced /ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ/; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was an English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.
Edison (Kinetoscope)
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The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. Though not a movie projector—it was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components—the Kinetoscope introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video: it creates the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. First described in conceptual terms by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. Dickson and his team at the Edison lab also devised the Kinetograph, an innovative motion picture camera with rapid intermittent, or stop-and-go, film movement, to photograph movies for in-house experiments and, eventually, commercial Kinetoscope presentations.
Lumiere brothers
In December 28, 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere were credited with the world's first public film. They showed ten short films that only lasted for twenty minutes (this was their first ever public demonstration of their device they called the Cinematograph) which was held in Paris at the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines.George Pal
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George Pal (February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980), born György Pál Marczincsak[1], was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre. He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe. He was nominated for Academy Awards (in the category Best short subjects, Cartoon) no less than seven consecutive years (1942–1948) and received an honorary award in 1944. This makes him the second most nominated Hungarian exile (together with William S. Darling and Ernest Laszlo) after Miklós Rózsa.
