Before revision: The earliest pioneers: 1940s to mid-1960s John Whitney John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation.SIGGRAPH Whitney Profile page (retrieved April 20, 2012) In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servos to control the motion of lights and lit objects – the first example of motion control photography.
After revision: The earliest pioneers: 1940s to mid-1960s John Whitney John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation.SIGGRAPH Whitney Profile page (retrieved April 20, 2012) In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights and lit objects – the first example of motion control photography.