Animation is essentially an optical illusion- a series of still photographs that create the impression of movement. Though Winsor McCay pioneered ways of making drawings move, Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men were the ones who perfected it. While making Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, not to mention countless shorts in the 1930s, this team of animators developed 12 basic principles that exaggerated the laws of physics to best bring these images to life.
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