As new, faster hardware and more sophisticated software becomes available at continually dropping prices, new standards are appearing almost every month. It will be interesting to go back and look briefly what happen from 1824 till today. In the past many people contributed to make animation what it is today, and to make animation possible. Animation wasn't something that happen instantly.
Many steps have to take place, in order to make animation possible.
First they had to make move possible and then to develop techniques for creating animations. Then, Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a phenakitstoscope which produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows, behind which was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed, the synchronization of the windows with the images created an animated effect. 1834 Horner developed the zoetrope from Plateau's phenakistoscope. 1872 Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic compilation of animals in motion.