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History of Animation -Pioneers in Computer Animation
Computer animation has been in development ever since the 1960s, when John Whitney, one of the fathers of computer animation, began experimenting with computer animation. John grew up in Pasadena California, and attended Pomona College. John’s first work was filming a lunar eclipse on 8mm film. To do this, he constructed a telescope by hand to better film the event. In 1939, John was awarded for five abstract films he did with his brother, James Whitney. At this time, what he was most known for was his animated opening for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo . In 1960, he started Motion Graphics Incorporated. Here he animated title sequences for movies, television shows, and commercials. In 1970, he made the switch to digital computers, as they were faster. He became a professor at California Institute of Technology, and was well recognized for possibly his greatest accomplishment, Psychedelic . From here he began to experiment with computer graphics more, becoming a known in...
