Early Animation Devices
Animation: The Beginning
Types of Animation
Anime before the 90's
Anime after the 90's
100

Also known as the Fantascope, the ______________ debuted around 1833, featuring spinning, painted cardboard disks reflected in mirrors, which created the illusion of movement.

Phenakistoscope

100

Whose 1914 film "Gertie the Dinosaur" featured an early example of character development in drawn animation?

Winsor McCay

100

 _________ animation is one of the oldest and most traditional forms of animation that involves hand drawing every scene on clear celluloid sheets.

Cel Animation

100

_________ is any animation made in Japan.

Anime
100

O.V.A. Stands for "_____________________"

Original Video Animation

200

Latin for “moving picture,” the ___________ (known as the flipbook) debuted in 1868.

 Kineograph

200

“____________________” premiered on 21 December 1937 and became a worldwide success. The film continued Disney's tradition to appropriate old fairy tales and other stories, as would most of the Disney features that followed.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

200

_____ animation involves creating movements using static images in two dimensions.

2D Animation

200

Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki started “___________________” together in 1985.

Studio Ghibli

200

In 2006, graduates of the University of California, Berkeley launched "____________" in 2006, becoming the first "anime streaming service," a model later used by Netflix, Funimation, and Amazon Prime.

Crunchyroll

300

The _____________ was a nineteenth-century optical toy that featured a picture disk held by two strings.

Thaumatrope

300

Disney and his long-time co-worker Ub Iwerks developed ____________ in 1928 to replace Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Mickey Mouse

300

_____ Animation brings digital objects to life, creating the illusion that they are moving in three-dimensional space.

3D Animation

300

In the late 70’s the “______” genre started with shows like “Mobile Suit gundam”

Mecha

300

2022 "________________" became the first ever non-English language series to earn the title of “World’s Most In-Demand TV Show”, previously held by only The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones.

Attack on Titan

400

The _______________ was an image projection device developed in 1603.

Magic Lantern

400

What is the process of using live-action film recordings as a reference point to more easily create realistic animated movements?

Rotoscoping

400

_______________ are pieces of animation or digital footage which create the illusion of motion or rotation, and are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects.

Motion graphics

400

The success of “Dragon Ball” (1986) introduced the “_____________” genre and influenced many more anime and manga series' including Naruto (2002).

Martial Arts

400

Experimental anime films were also released in the 1990s, most notably the cyberpunk thriller "_______________________" (1995),which had a strong influence on The Matrix.

Ghost in the Shell

500

William Ensign Lincoln invented the __________ in 1865 when he was about 18 years old

Zoetrope

500

 In 1919, _____________ of Pat Sullivan Studios created Felix the Cat.


Otto Messmer

500

______________ animation is a technique where the objects used in the scene are physically moved in every frame and photographed.

Stop Motion Animation

500

Osamu Tezuka would eventually start "_________________" creating shows like “Astro boy” in 1963

Mushi Studios

500

In 1995, Hideaki Anno made the controversial anime "_______________".

Neon Genesis Evangelion