Other animators

Joseph Plateau

• Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883)
• Belgian physicist 
• First person to portray the illusion of movement
• To do this he used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistoscope.

William Horner 

• Maths teacher and a master at school
• His contribution to approximation theory is honored in the designation Horner's methods, in particular respect of a paper in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for 1819. The modern invention of the zoetrope.

Emily Reynard

• Reynaud created the 'praxinoscope in 1877 and the Theatre Optique in December 1888, and on 28 October 1892 he projected the first animated film in public, Pauvre Pierrot, at the Musee Grevin in Paris.

Edward Muybridge Edison

• He was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection.
• He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name.
• Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.

Lumiere Brothers

• Auguste and Louis Lumière came from Lyon in France, where they worked in their father's photographic factory.
• In 1894, they saw Edison's kinetoscope in Paris, and decided to design a camera of their own. By February of the next year they had produced a working model of their ciné camera, which they called a cinématographe.
• The machine was in fact not only a camera but could be used, together with a magic lantern, to project the films which the brothers had taken.

George Pal

• He was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre. 
• He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe. 
• He was nominated for Academy Awards (in the category Best short subjects, Cartoon) no less than seven consecutive years (1942–1948) and received an honorary award in 1944.

Willis O'Brien

• He was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer.
• Who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World (1925), King Kong (1933) and Mighty Joe Young (1949), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Jan Svankmajer

• He is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.