Significant developers

Willis O'Brien

Willis Harold O'Brien (March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962) was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_H._O%27Brien

Willis O'Brien was the one who produced the movie King Kong in 1933. Although the movie is very old the scenes are amazing. The movie shows us how much the film making industry had developed during that time.

One of the scenes:

https://youtu.be/NOq8IjDMKIw

Pioneers and early inventions:

Joseph Plateau was born in 1801 and was the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image.

To do this he used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakitoscope.

Phenakitoscope:

The phenakistoscope (also spelled phenakistiscope or phenakitiscope) was an early animation device that used the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.

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