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Max Fleischer Max Fleischer was an animator, director, and inventor of some 30 patents for animation production. He is well known for creating animated cartoons featuring popular characters such as Betty Boop, Popeye the sailor man, and Superman. He is considered one of the three major pioneers of American animation of the 20th century, along side with Winsor McCay and Walt Disney.  Max Fleischer career started at the Brooklyn Daily eagle, where he worked his way up to the top from running errands to the positions of photographer and staff cartoonist while still in his teens. He began drawing single panel political cartoons for 'fillers' and later drew two daily comic strips, Little Algy and E.X Sposher, the camera Fiend. 

Computers and Animation Throughout the years, the use and growth of technology has facilitated animation's development. From the early ages of the zoetrope and current creations of graphic animation, technology has helped animation evolve from two- to three dimensional format. Recently technology tools facilitating computer animation include for example the digital pen, tablet, and digital sculpting tools. In addition, 3D animation softwares enables most of what one would see in a established animation movie such as modelling, rendering, animation, and lighting.

Matthew Abraham Groening- Cartoonist, Screenwriter, Animator, Producer. Matthew Abraham "Matt" Groening is a U.S. cartoonist, screenwriter, producer, animator, author, musician, comedian, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip 'Life in hell' as well as the co-creator of two successful television series, The Simpson, Futurama and a Christmas special, Olive the Reindeer. The Simpson has gone on to become the longest running U.S. primetime television series in history, as well as the longest running animated series and sitcom. Matt Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the event-grade Wet magazine in 1978. During its peak cartoon were carried out in 250 newspapers. Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. Brooks an American movie director. James contacted Groening in 1985 with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman show. Quotes: "I'm a writer who just happens to...

Charlotte Reiniger- Film director Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German film director and a pioneer of silhouette animation. Reiniger made more than 40 films over her career, all using her inventions. She was most famous for her invention of hypnotic films, crafted out of snippets of card and wire and animated by hand, she has influenced the generations of film makers and artist. She also made one of the worlds first animated film, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed". Film was Reinigers passion, when she was a little girl she was delighted by the trickery of films by George Melies, and later on the dreamy horrors of Paul Wegener (film director). She was also very interested for the Chinese art of shadow puppetry.  As a young women she was keen to work with Paul Wegener, she found a job designing silhouettes for the inter-titles in his films. Her first step into animation was on his film 'The Piped Piper of Hamelin' in 1918. In the 1960s, Lotte Reiniger...

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The Zoetrope is a wheel of life. When you place a strip of drawings inside the Zoetrope drum, spin it and look through the slots, you will see the images come to life. They are not really alive, it is an illusion of motions depending on two things, persistence of vision and phi phenomenon .