Animation

The animation is the art and science of making pictures appear to move.
Animated movies and television shows are popular forms of entertainment.
There are two basic types of animation: traditional and computer.
Movies and television shows made with traditional animation are also called cartoons.

How Traditional Animations are made?

Teams of artists create them one picture at a time.
Thousands of drawings are needed for only a few minutes of animation.
Each drawing is a bit different from the one before it.
Example: To show a character walking
- The first drawing might show the character with both feet on the ground.
- The next drawing might show the knee with a tiny bend and the foot slightly off the ground.
- In the third drawing, the knee might be bent more and the foot might be a little farther off the ground, and so on.
To save work and time, artists paint or draw the moving parts of a scene on sheets of clear plastic film.
They place a drawing of the parts of the scene that do not move under the clear film.
In this way, they do not need to redraw the background in every picture.
Then filmmakers use a special camera to take a picture of each drawing on its background.
Each of these pictures is called a frame.
The camera records the frames one after another on long strips of film.
To make the images move smoothly, 24 frames are needed for every second of the film.
Filmmakers can also create animation with figures made of clay or other materials.

Instead of drawing thousands of images, they take many photographs of figures set up in a scene.
They move the figures slightly between each photograph.
This technique is called stopmotion animation.

Computers have made animation a faster process.
They can produce the thousands of pictures needed for an animated film more quickly than human artists.
Artists can also use computers to create characters, objects, and backgrounds that look more real than drawings do.
Today computers are used in almost all animation.
Computer animation can be used to make a whole movie or to create special effects in live-action films.
Many spacecraft, robots, and monsters in movies are actually computer images.
Scientists use computer animation to show things that people cannot easily see in real life. Such things include the movement of the solar system, weather patterns, and the inside of the human body.
Artists used computers to make the animated movie Toy Story in 1995.

Amination is literally translated from French as “soul.” So, the process of animation is actually the “ensoulment” of characters!.
Kyrofelonoshophobia is the fear of cartoon characters.
Walt Disney made the first animated film with sound, Steamboat Willie, in 1928.
In 1937, Disney made Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was the first full-length animated film to be released as a major motion picture in the United States.
The First winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature was SHREK.
Fantasia was the first commercial film to be released with stereophonic sound.
Beauty and the Beast took more than 3 years and required the talents of nearly 600 animators, artists, and technicians.
Some 350,000 drawings were made for the production of Robyn Hood.

In the 1800s people invented spinning machines that made a series of drawings appear to move.
The first animated films appeared in the early 1900s.
Animated television shows appeared in the United States in the 1950s.
Toy Story, from 1995, was the first long film made completely with computer animation.