With that in mind, here's a brief history of the beloved medium's beginnings through the seminal work of five early animation pioneers. French cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl is often referred ...

Cohl’s hallucinatory shape-shifting was a thunderclap, revealing that animation could be used as more than just a curiosity. He inspired other caricaturists and comic-strip artists to follow him ...

From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, film animation has always been a medium that esteems the conveyance of visuals, by its very definition. As animation as we know it ...

Animation has been a part of cinema since the beginning — it’s believed that Emile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, made in 1908, is the very first animated film. It was, as all films were then ...

“Animation is a young man’s game,” Chuck ... on directorial careers while in their 40s. Pioneering animator Emile Cohl didn’t make his first animated film, Fantasmagorie (1908), until ...

Charles-Émile Reynaud projected the first animation onto a screen in 1877 and Émile Cohl premiered the first animated film in 1908. Now, over a hundred years later, a pair of young Parisians ...