A brief history of animation from 1671 to the present day

The magic lantern 1671

Its an oil lamp with a lens and has images painted on the glass. you light up the oil lamp and project the images on a suitable screen

A thaumatrope 1824

is a disk or card with a picture on each side with 2 pieces of string attached to it. if you twirle the strings with your fingers the pictures combine together giving you an illusion 

The praxinoscope 1877

This was an animation invented by charles-Émile Reynaud.

It has a strip of pictures around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder

A flip book 1868

A flip book is a series of pictures from one page to the other.

when the pages are turned or flicked rapidly the pictures form an animation. 

Stop motion

Stop motion is made with frame by frame its an animation technique which makes objects apear or move. You can do it picture by picture and make each one move slightly in a way which will turn into animation.

BBC and IGoogle layouts

BBC

The bbc website has a really good layout and allot which you can move around.

Compared to Igoogle, bbc website has more colours and graphics and a very good design. it shows history, news, childrens channel, radio, tv and plenty more. BBC is very useful to use for day to day things and keeping up to date.

IGoogle

IGoogle is also usefull aswell but its different in a way compared to BBC. it also has the layouts you can move around where ever you want to put them on the page. It also as BBC shows the weather and the news but you can also add in your own gadgets such as currency converter,Youtube gadget,face book, facts and many more. Really good layout gadgets you can add in is google translate and also have your own email login and viewer layout gadget.