Animation

I have always thought and been told, that animation is the most complex form of art. Well, you know what? It is. Movies, and video games are forms of animation. Animation is a sequence of 2-D or 3-D images that move very fast. The result is an illusion of movement that can be demonstrated in many different ways. Movies, or cartoons, are a common way of displaying animation. Animation is also representing sketches to show movement within those sketches. A series of drawings are connected together and normally photographed by a camera. The sketches have been changed a little between frames so when they are played back in fast speeds(24 frames per second), there appears to be something moving within the sketches.
The earliest attempt of animation is found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are drawn in superimposed positions. Even in the early days, cavemen have been trying to achieve the effect of animation.
In 180AD, the phenakistoscope, or, praxinoscope was invented by the Chinese. I the 19th century, people named it the "flip-book". It is like a book with a slightly different drawn picture on each page. When you flip the book at high speed, the images will appear to be moving.
No single person can claim to be the sole inventor of true animation, as several people worked on the early arts of animation at the same time.
Georges Méliès, was a creator of films that had special effect. He was one of the first people to create animation with a technique he discovered by accident. He discovered this technique accidentaly when he stopped the camera roll to change something in the background, and then rolled the film again. This technique was named later as stop-motion animation. Georges discovered this technique accidentally when his camera failed him when he was shooting a bus driving by. When he had made the camera start working again, a hearse passed by just as Georges started rolling the film again , his final product was that he had made a bus turn into into a hearse. This was just one of the greatest and first successes in animation.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow5/may99/History/history.html