ANIMATION…By: MINTOO JAKHMOLARoll No.: A19

ANIMATION

The word “animation” is a form

of “animate,” which means to bring to life. Thus when a multimedia developer 

wants to bring  an image to  life, animation is used.

DEFINITIONS

Animation is the creation of moving pictures one frame at a time.

In the abstract, an animation is a continuous, time-varying image.

In practice, it is a sequence of static images displayed in succession so rapidly that it looks continuous.

TYPES OF ANIMATION

There are three basic types of animation:

Traditional

Stop Animation

Computer Animation 2D Animation 3D Animation

TRADITIONAL

Traditional animation (also called celanimation or hand-drawn animation)was the process used for most animated films of the 20th century. The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings, which are first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it.

STOP MOTION

Stop-motion animation is used to describe animation created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time to create the illusion of movement.Stop animation or stop motion animation is a technique to make objects move on their own. Here, a few images are drawn with some different positions and photographed separately.

2D ANIMATION

It is used through PowerPoint and Flash animations. Though its features are similar to cel animation, 2D animation has become popular due to simple application of scanned drawings into the computer like in a cartoon film.

3D ANIMATION

It is used in film making where we require unusual

objects or characters that are not easy to display. Use of 3D animation can create a crowd of people in a disaster like earthquake, flood or war.

WHERE THE ANIMATION IS USED?

Computer animation is used for many things like film, Flight simulation, Science, and art. Film is a favorite use of computer animation. Movies suchas “Terminator Two”, “Jurassic Park”, and “Abyss”use computer animation. It is used in for lot’s of things in architecture like making models housesso that their clients can take a virtual tour.

Computer animation is also used in creatingthree dimensional video games.