1914Winsor McCay introduces Gertie the Dinosaur, an animated film consisting of 10,300 separate
drawings. It was the first film animation to be created using keyframe animation techniques.
1915Max Fleischer invented rotoscoping, an animation technique where the artist traces over live-
action film movement, frame by frame. Computers have replaced the work
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