Animation

Animation is the rapid display of images to create the illusion of movement. It can be made with either hand rendered art , computer generated imagery, or three dimensional objects such as puppets or clay figures.
An early example of animation is  this five image sequence above from a vase from Iran.



Above is a 4000 year old Egyptian burial chamber mural which although it cant be viewed in motion, it was the artists way of depicting it.

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Above is a scene from Fantagasmagorie  by french artist Emile Cohl made in 1908. It was the first animated film to be creating using hand drawn animation.

There are different types of animation such as traditional animation, stop motion animation and computer animation.

In a traditionally animated film the individual frames are photographs of drawings, which are first drawn onto paper.Each drawing differs slightly from the one before it to create the illusion of movement.

In a stop motion animation, the animator physically manipulates real world objects and photographs them one frame of film at a time to create the illusion of movement.

In computer animation the animating process is done using a computer, which takes less time that doing it traditionally.