Walt Disney has had the greatest impact on every part of animation.
He started making titles for silent movies where he met Ub Iwerks
Walt and Ub learned the animation process together
Disney and manager Charles Mintz came up with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Trolley Troubles, 1927 the first release of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon
Puss in Boots, Laugh-o-Gram Studios, Disney, 1922
Walt later came up with the idea of a cartoon mouse ( on a train back to California after looking for money out east) he initially named it "Mortimer" but Walt's wife liked the name "Mickey" And that began Disney's history.
Disney leveraged key technologies and methods to popularize the medium.
He was innovative in the following areas:
Sound: SteamBoat Willie was the first sound cartoon
Steam Boat Willie, 1928 The first cartoon to use sound
Skeleton Dance, Disney, 1929
The first all musical cartoon
Color:
He secured a deal with Technicolor to use their 3 strip color process for three years exclusively. The first animation to use this process was Flowers and Trees won an Oscar for animated short 1932
Speed
He experimented with depicting speed. This had not been done up to this time.
Accelerated actions and Speed lines were a new style in animation
Exaggerated character personalities
Won an oscar for
Max hare provided a good model for the later to come Warner bros. Character Bugs Bunny
Tortoise and the Hare, Walt Disney, 1935
Depth
Walt had his staff experiment with depth and they developed the Multi-plane camera
This video has Mr. Disney describing it.
The Old Mill is the first Silly Symphony to use the Muli-plane camera
Mickey Mouse started to decline in popularity due to the strong personality of Donald Duck. Mickey started to take a different role to the other characters Disney had created.
The Brave Little Tailor did just this.
The Brave Little Tailer
Ub Iwerks:
real talent behind Walts early success
First drew mickey Mouse ( steambOat willie, Plane crazy....)
In the 30's he was doing most if not all animation or supervising it
His solo outing is called " Fiddlesticks" stars Flip the Frog
He returned to Disney
Won Oscar for his work in special effects
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