Attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion drawing can be found as early as in paleolithic cave paintings!

Georges Méliès discovered stop-motion animation. Méliès discovered this technique accidentally when his camera broke down while shooting a bus driving by. When he had fixed the camera, a horse happened to be passing by just as Méliès restarted rolling the film, his end result was that he had managed to make a bus transform into a horse!

J. Stuart Blackton was possibly the first American filmmaker to use the techniques of stop-motion and hand-drawn animation. Blackton is considered the first true animator.

Another French artist, Émile Cohl, began drawing cartoon strips and created a film Fantasmagorie, which is the first animated film created using what came to be known as traditional animation.

Alexandre Alexeieff

Tex Avery

Arthur Babbit

Joseph Barbera

Berthold Bartosch

Joy Batchelor

Amadee J. Van Beuren

Preston Blair

Ivo Caprino

Osvaldo Cavandoli

Bob Clampett

Émile Cohl

William Hanna

Ollie Johnston

Chuck Jones

Kihachirô Kawamoto

Norman McLaren

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