Thursday 4 October 2012

Animation 1930's - 1949's

Norman McLaren 








Norman McLaren,  (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada.







Norman was the first animator to create animations using people instead of figures.






Art Clokey


  Arthur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia.








Fleischer Brothers
Fleischer Studios, Inc. is an American corporation which originated as a New York animation studio. It was founded in 1921 by brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, who ran the company from its inception until they were fired by parent company and distributor Paramount Pictures in April 1942. 
The two most famous animation from the Fleischer Brothers were Betty Boop and PopEye.



Ray Harryhausen


Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (born June 29, 1920) is an American visual effects creator, writer and producer. He created a brand of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation."

Among his most notable works are his animation on Mighty Joe Young (with pioneer Willis O'Brien, which won the Academy Award for special effects) (1949), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (his first color film) and Jason and the Argonauts, featuring a famous sword fight against seven skeleton warriors.
 



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