Who invented animation?
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Film and animation are based on the principle of persistence of vision. This principle is easily demonstrated with the bird and bird cage optical illusion.\n\nOne of the simplest and earliest of the nineteenth-century devices is the thaumatrope, which is essentially a disk with a drawing on one side and a second drawing on the other. The disk spins on a string; and if you spin it rapidly enough, the eye combines the two images into one picture.\n\nIn French writings  the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau is  credited with having discovered the principle of persistence of vision.  In 1830 Plateau constructed an instrument he called a "phenakistiscope" (literally, "eye deceiver") by means of which successive, slightly differing pictures on a revolving disc, when viewed through a vertical slit, produce an illusion of continuous motion.  The principle underlying the illusion, he claims, is simple:\nIf several objects, progressively different in form and position, are presented to the eye for very short intervals and sufficiently close together, the impressions they make upon the retina will join together without being confused, and one will believe he is seeing a single object gradually changing form and position.\n\nIn 1833, for example, W. G. Horner first described what would later become known as the zoetrope, in which successive images were printed on the inner wall of a cylinder. By spinning the cylinder and looking through the slits in its outer wall, people could see the images fly by one at a time. Like the successive images in a movie, the pictures trick the eye and appear to be moving.\n\nThe praxinoscope followed in 1877. This device operated on similar principles, but, instead of looking through slits, viewers using the praxinoscope saw the images reflected on a series of mirrors in the center of the device. This made the images much brighter and produced less flicker.\n\nFirst patented in the U.S. on on May 16, 1882 by Henry Van Hovenbergh of Elizabeth, New Jersey, early flip books consisted of simple drawings stacked in sequential stages of movement with a single staple binding. When the pages were flipped, they would create the optical illusion of motion. \n\nIn 1894, Herman Casler invented a mechanized form of flip book called the Mutoscope, which mounted the pages on a central rotating cylinder rather than binding them in a book. The mutoscope remained a popular attraction through the mid-20th century, appearing as coin-operated machines in penny arcades and amusement parks
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umm gif isn't your best option, if you want on that still moves you sould use Macromedia Flash... it is supported by all browsers and is the most versatile animation today.
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You can create cool flash animation using the software available at http://www.mix-fx.com\n\nDownload the software and then design the flash animation as you want it to be.
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sir isaac newton. the man who "discovered" the law of gravity.
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Try with LiveSwif 2.2, it's free and you can design your own animations in the way you would do it with Macromedia
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software engineer is a pretty broad term.  Animation is pretty specific.  The BEST thing to be is flexible.  I think all engineer should have strong skills in web technologies since it is definitely the area with the most opportunity.
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There are a lot of tutorials online about different types of animation. Try searching for thwem using a search engine such as yahoo or google
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Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, \n\n\n(4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history.\n\nNewton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica wherein he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from this system, he was the first to show that the motion of bodies on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws. The unifying and deterministic power of his laws was integral to the scientific revolution and the advancement of heliocentrism.\n\nAmong other scientific discoveries, Newton realized that the spectrum of colours observed when white light passes through a prism is inherent in the white light and not added by the prism (as Roger Bacon had claimed in the 13th century), and notably argued that light is composed of particles. He also developed a law of cooling, describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air. He enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of stars.\n\nAmong Westerners, Newton played a major role in the history of calculus, sharing credit with Gottfried Leibniz. He also made contributions to other areas of mathematics, having derived the binomial theorem in its entirety. The mathematician and mathematical physicist Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), said that "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish
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go to www.howstuffworks.com, they'll prolly have somthing for you with flash animations.
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If you don't count the abacus, which is ancient, then Blaise Pascal invented the first mechanical computation machine in France in 1642. Check it yo!\n\nhttp://www.thocp.net/hardware/pascaline.htm
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Something he invented.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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memoirs of a geisha.\n\nThe dam novel was better suited for an animation than a movie (but i suppose youll have to wait a while)\n\nTry the stories of terry pratchett. they are capable of being converted to cartoons but no ones paying any attention
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Inventor of the modern television --> A: Zworykin ...Other people said it was  John Logie Baird
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Hmm... firstly, HTML and JavaScript cannot be used to make animation. They are used just to impliment some functionality when you click on something or move your mouse pointer over an object. Animation can be created using Flash or using an advanced GIF editor like GIFAnimator. Its is a very tedious job. \n\nThe best that you can do with javascript and still images to rotate the images in a cyclic order to 'emulate' and animated element. This type of coding is usually used in ad-banners.\n\nFor the laser printer part, I think the answers above my entry have dispelled your doubts.
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All previous answers are wrong. Aristotle is credited with being the first scientist, because he used observation rather than unverifiable references. Mind you, the progress was halting. Even he still detected "anima" in frogs, as some sort of soul. The whole concept of purely using observation had not really sunk in. However, he is generally credited...\n\n\nSupport novel transit solutions: http://www.hallisystem.bravehost.com
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You can try visiting wikipedia's entry about it at:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion_animation\n\nThere are several links on the said page, so perhaps you may hit upon 'guides' on stop-motion animation, as the question itself is sort of broad and generalized.\n\nGuides as in, production step-by-step? or certain process step? Preparation in creating the animation?\n\nWell whatever you intended, I hope this has helped you a tiny bit...