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There have been many different types of animation throughout the years. An early example of animation is the Praxinoscope which was invented by a french scientist. This was a more complicated version of the zoetrope. It was used in the same way as a strip of images placed on the inside of a spinning cylinder but instead of looking at it through slits, it was viewed in a group of small, stationery mirrors around the inside of the cylinder, so that the animation will stay in place and give a better image and be of a better quality.

A Thaumatrope is another early example of animation. A Thaumatrope is a small circular disk or card which has two different pictures on each side which was hooked onto a piece of string or two pieces of string going through the centre. If you hold the string between the fingers and twirl it, the two images appear as one.

A few other examples of animation are the zoetrope, the magic lantern and the flip book.

These were also early types of animation.

Nowadays, animation is much more complicated than it used to be. CGI animation