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animation - correct answer the illusion of motion
magic lantern - correct answer a projector loaded with a series of images
Fantasmagorie - correct answer Emile Cohl film, "first" true example of animation based on the use of film stock
Emile Cohl - correct answer father of the animated cartoon, his films featured surrealist transformation and fantasy and incoherence, animated McManus "The Newlyweds" series
Phenakistoscope - correct answer A spinning disk allowing the viewer to look through a slit and see the image reflected in a mirror
Zoetrope - correct answer a 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion.
Praxinoscope - correct answer An early animation device similar to a zoetrope that uses mirrors instead of slits.
Emile Reynaud - correct answer The creator of the praxinoscope and optical theater, putting on shows with a hand-cranked projector thaumatrope - correct answer A flipping flat disc with complementary images on each side that join together while the disc is in motion
James Stuart Blackton - correct answer animator who drew frame by frame animation, similar to lightning sketches
lightning sketches - correct answer live performances of drawings that transformed in time, "a drawing show"
self figuration - correct answer a strategy of the artist/animator putting themselves into the final product/film, characteristic of early animation
Incoherents - correct answer group of avant-garde artists, inspired Emile Cohl (bad boy artists)
personality animation - correct answer set of visual techniques used to give a character a distinct persona (ex. Gertie the Dinosaur)
Winsor McCay - correct answer created the first examples of personality animation, began as astounding comic strip artist with great graphic style (ex. Little Nemo, Gertie the Dinosaur)
John Bray - correct answer American animation, patented cel animation in late 1910s (developed by Earl
Hurd) (ex. The Artist's Dream), praised for his fusion of art and business sense
cel animation - correct answer animation process involving elements drawn on clear plastic cels, only redrawing the moving aspects, significantly lessened the amount of labor and eliminated "squirm" effect
of earlier techniques
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