Stop Motion Animation

Georges Méliès 

Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and filmmaker which is was known and  famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, When he was using his special effects, Melies accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, which was one of the first 

filmmakers to use time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work. 

Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator. People know him for his comic strip he created called Little Nemo and also the animated film Gertie The Dinosaur. For severals reasons  he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. His professional carrer started when he started making posters and performing for dime museums 

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Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director. The film she directed was called Das Ornament des verliebten Herzens (The Ornament of the Enamoured Heart, 1919), which was a short piece about two lovers and an ornament which reflected their moods. The film was very successful and was well received. She made six short films during the following few years, all produced and photographed by her husband which were interspersed with advertising films