Animators From History

Georges Melies

Georges Melies was a French illusionist and Film maker, Famous for creating many Technical and Narative Innovations in the earliest days of cinema, creating and incorporating the use many special effects to his films, He accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work.













Winsor Mccay


Winsor Mccay was an american cartoonist and animator , Best known for The commic strip Little Nemo and animating the film Gertie the dinosaur, He also roduced Dream of the Rarebit Friend under the pen name silas due to conrtactual reasons.


Lotte Reiniger

She animated wooden rats and created the animated intertitles for Wegener's The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The success of this work got her admitted into the Institute for Cultural Research, an experimental animation and shortfilm, The first film Reiniger directed was The Ornament of the Enamoured.

Walt Disney
Walt Disney is a major figure within the American animation industry and throughout the world, he is regarded as an international icon, well known for his influence and contributions to the field of entertainment during the 20th century. He produced the first audio in animation in steamboat willie.