The history of computer animation began a few decades later. Animation is widely used in the education sector as well as for research purposes to create realistic scientific visualizations. Various other industries such as Advertisement, Marketing, Gaming, Retail, Architecture, and Engineering use animation in multiple ways. Nowadays, the animation is not only used in the entertainment industry. Let us refrain from judgement as that is best left to the professionals.Since the creation of the world’s first animated film in 1908 by French cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl, the world of animation has come a long way. And they have the gall to delude themselves that this state of affairs is a valuable and productive way to spend their lives. So seriously in fact that they spend their entire professional lives obsessing about the minutiae of making little cartoon people do funny things on illuminated rectangular devices for the entertainment of small children whose parents would rather they be doing something else. These ‘people’ imagine scripts, visualise cartoons, and dream in storyboard panels.

And all of them will have you know that they take themselves very seriously. Screen and Pencil is definitely not just composed of otherwise intelligent, fully grown adults who spend all their time watching tv cartoons, making tv cartoons, talking about tv cartoons, and discussing Proust (in terms of whether it would make a good feature animation). As you may imagine, their parents are extremely proud. These individuals have devoted their entire lives to the serene and dignified study of cartoons, breakfast cereals and all possible combinations, permutations and crunchy bits thereof.

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