Death is not worse pain than an empty life. -- Lun Tha

So say you're living in Iran, 5,200 years ago. You're a potter.  You're decorating your finished product. A bowl.  This is all perfectly normal.

But someone was decidedly amazing. Some potter had the fabulous idea that if he made a goat in different stages of jumping from one plant stalk to another, he could see the goat actually JUMP if he spun his bowl.

And so he did.  You can see more about this first known animation --> here.  Blows me away.