History of animation.

Animation is an art form which, in its modern appearance, appeared alongside the development of film. Earlier attempts at making drawings move were only experimental. Animations has a long history. Contents 1 Early Animation 1.1 Precursors to Animation 2 Victorian parlor toys 2.1 Zoetrope (180 AD; 1834) 2.2 The magic lantern 2.3 Thaumatrope (1824) 2.4 Phenakistoscope (1831) 2.5 Flip book (1868) 2.6 Praxinoscope (1877) 3 The present 3.1 Traditional animation 3.2 Feature-length films 3.3 Stop motion 3.4 CGI animation 4 The future 4.1 Animated humans 4.2 Cel-shaded animation