Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a long history of creating style and poetry unachievable through live action filmmaking.

Animation has a long and interesting history. Since the advent of modern computer animation, even Walt Disney Studios, one of the stanchions of feature-length animation, has moved to animating solely with computers. Hand-drawn, stop-motion, go-motion, claymation and many other techniques have been used throughout human history. Even cave paintings were created with a sense of motion. This video is a brief, and incredibly thorough, telling of the art of animation.