Stop Motion Animation

George Melles

Georges Melles, was a french filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use hand painted colour in his work. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician".Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the moon and The impossible voyage .Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. 

A Trip to the Moon released in the UK initially as Trip to the Moon, is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Melles. it follows a group of astronomers who travel to the moon in a cannon-propelled spaceship, explore the moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites and return in a splashdown to Earth with a captive Selenite in tow.

Winsor McCay

Zenas Winsor McCay  was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo and the animated film Gertie the Dinasour . For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of Rarebit Friend.

Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor Macay. Nemo was originally the protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo . The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by his awakening in the final panel. The strip is considered McCay's masterpiece for its experiments with the form of the comics page, its use of color, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels, perspective, architectural and other detail.