Cartoon animation in the modern age has a diverse collection of styles and inspirations. Compared to the early television ages of animation, modern day television animation embraces different art styles and mediums. Typically, in early television animation, the styles were 2D cartoons, creating a mixture of the previously famous UPA modern art -inspired style with the Mickey Mouse formula of using talking animals. This early television style was most notable in the Hanna-Barbera shows like Huckleberry Hound , Snagglepuss , and Yogi Bear . In modern day television, you can see all different types of animations instead of a common thread like this early style. There are shows like Adventure Time that utilizes the 2D style of early cartoons, Thomas & Friends , which incorporates a 3D sense of space within the cartoon, and many other shows that showcase mediums of art like claymation, motion capture, and stop motion. Different Animation Styles of the Modern Era The Amazing World ...
Zenas Winsor McCay was born on September 26th, 1871 in Spring Lake, Michigan. He grew up in Michigan with his parents, his older brother, Arthur, and his younger sister, Mae. Winsor McCay was an extremely talented child. McCay's drawing skills got better the more he drew, which was all time. People started to notice his talent when he would do something that he would call "memory sketching." This type of drawing involved drawing a scene or a room or a person from memory. McCay would memory sketch to impress others, and others were certainly impressed. When McCay got older, his father demanded that he go to Business school, in order to get a "business education." McCay agreed and attended Cleary Business College in Michigan. At school, McCay hardly attended classes. Instead, he was hired by a dime museum (a indoor circus-like show) to draw portraits of patrons. This is what proved to McCay that drawing was more than a passion, it could be a career (Canemaker, 1...