Computers have totally changed the way we create and work with images and graphics and games. Animation needs these computers and it’s sometimes hard to grasp the vast, fundamental shift that technology has caused in the creation and distribution of visual media, especially since the actual workings of the technology still remain a mystery to many. To give a brief history, from the seventh through to the thirteenth centuries, books-usually religious in nature-were created one by one by hand, and it took a huge amount of dedication to create such beautiful manuscripts. While the Chinese developed a form of simple printing at the beginning of the eleventh century, it wasn't until the fifteenth century, when the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press using movable type, that the production and distribution of printed text and images in volume was possible (Ford, 15). Centuries later, printing was still done mechanically. Great newspaper presses could churn......

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Title: History Of Animation
Approximate Word Count: 2378
Approximate Pages: 10 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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