
The team at Disney made modifications to the machine for work on the first ever feature length animated film – which leads to our next major breakthrough. Here is Walt Disney himself explaining the technology in this short from Disney Family. The stunning work earned The Old Mill an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. The final product featured realistic depictions of animals and weather, as well as complex lighting and color effects. The device was first tested in the 1937 short, The Old Mill. This created a three dimensional world in which elements in the foreground would move separately from those in the background. Then individual panes were moved – and another photo taken. A camera was placed high above all the planes of glass and an image was taken.
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The device use a series of glass panes with individual elements painted on them. To break away from the previously one-dimensional work of animation, Walt Disney (and his team led by William Garity) devised a new machine dubbed the multiplane camera. This short was released four years before Walt Disney perfected synchronization in the infamous 1928 Steamboat Willie cartoon, which introduced the world to Mickey Mouse. It was the first animated film to have a talking character with synced dialogue – a dog shouting “Follow the ball, and join in, everybody!” In 1924, brothers Max and Dave Fleischer released Oh Mabel, a seven minute animated short that used Phonofilm to sync sound and footage. Here is a look at the animated short film from classiccartoon. There are a few scenes in the film where Cohl’s hands are visible while taking the photograph. The hand drawn film follows a stick figure running into morphing objects. Cohl made the film by drawing each frame on a piece of paper and shooting it on film. The First Traditional Animated Shortįrench artist Émile Cohl is credited with the first ever animated film – 1908’s Fantasmagorie. In rough chronological order, you will see how these ten animation breakthroughs were so revolutionary, that many of the techniques were still used decades later. These 10 breakthroughs changed the world of animation forever.
