Stop Motion Animation

Georges Méliès

Georges Melies was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for making films in the earliest days of cinema. While using special effects, Georges accidentally found the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use  time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work.

Windsor Mccay

was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo.and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914. He began his career making posters and performing for museums, and began making newspapers and magazines in 1898. He joined the New York Heraldin 1903, where he created popular comic strips such as Little Sammy Sneeze and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. 

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director. She was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg on 2 June 1899. In 1918, she animated wooden rats and created the animated inter titles for Wegener's Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (The Pied Piper of Hamelin). This work got her into the Institut für Kulturforschung (Institute for Cultural Research), an experimental animation and short-film studio. It was here that she met her future creative partner and husband (from 1921), Carl Koch, as well as other avant-garde artists including Hans Cürlis, Bertolt Brecht, Berthold Bartosch.

Walt Disney -SteamBoat Willie 

Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by the Walt Disney Studios and released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse, and his girlfriend Minnie, but the characters had both appeared several months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy. Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but was the first to be distributed. The film is also notable for being one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound. It was the first cartoon to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons such as Inkwell Studios' Song Car-Tunes(1924–1927) and Van Beuren Studios' Dinner Time (1928). Also distinguishing Steamboat Willie from earlier sound cartoons was the level of popularity.