Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement.

In this Graphics Interchange Format |. gif of a 2D Adobe Flash | Flash animation, each ' stick ' of the stick figure | figure is Keyframe # Animation by means of computer graphics | keyframed over time to create motion.

He is also well known in Animation as the Mad Scientist Dr. Animo in the Ben 10 series, Chef Mung Daal in the children's cartoon Chowder, and Eddie the Squirrel in CatDog.

Animation is a form of entertainment that appeals especially to younger audiences.

* Animation: Founded in 1960, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival is the oldest international film festival dedicated exclusively to animation.

Master animator Richard Williams explains the KISS principle in his book The Animator's Survival Kit, and Disney's Nine Old Men write about it in Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, which is considered " the animation bible " by CG, traditional, and stop motion animators.

Animation for most " Saturday morning cartoons " is produced as cheaply as possible, and is most often shot on " threes ", or even " fours ", i. e. three or four frames per drawing.

Qt is most notably used in Autodesk Maya, The Foundry's Nuke, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Research In Motion.

* February 3 – Pixar Animation Studios is opened.

The portrait was saved and is now part of the Animation Archives in Burbank, California.

Shīton Dōbutsuki Risu no Banā ( Japanese: シートン動物記 りすのバナー, English: " Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel ") is a 26-episode animation produced by Nippon Animation.

The RenderMan Interface Specification, or RISpec in short, is an open API developed by Pixar Animation Studios to describe three-dimensional scenes and turn them into digital photorealistic images.

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Animation artist Max Fleischer introduced a series of sing-along short cartoons called Screen Songs, which invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by " following the bouncing ball ", which is similar to a modern karaoke machine.

Animation historian Jerry Beck wrote, " the beginning of the film is quite promising, with a garbage can discussing life on the streets with some garbage.

It is credited with the helping the American Animation Renaissance in the 1990s, bringing animation back into popularity and bringing in many different styles of animation as possible.

* John Lasseter: ( born January 12, 1957 in Hollywood, California ) is an animator and the chief creative executive at Pixar Animation Studios.

On July 23 2012, DreamWorks Animation purchased Classic Media for $ 155 million and as a result UPA is now owned by DreamWorks.

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Five months later, Walt Disney Feature Animation released a special DVD The Cat That Looked at a King, with Sarah's voice in the role of the Queen ; the story is derived from the Mary Poppins books by P. L. Travers.

The series is the first Disney animated television series which did not premiere on network / over-the-air television, which had been done since 1985 when the Television Animation unit was started.

Animation directors are usually required to storyboard extensively, sometimes in place of writing a script.

Animated features produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, DisneyToon Studios and Studio Ghibli ( North America distribution ) are usually released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.

In the case of anime, this is called Original Video Animation ( OVA or OAV ), and their production values usually fall between those of TV shows and movies.

It also co-produces several anime series, including Ghost in the Shell, Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance and Eon Kid, usually through financial contributions toward production costs.

Although Toei Company usually lets Toei Animation handle its official animation works, on occasion they may hire other companies to provide animation on their behalf, such as Sunrise for the Robot Romance Trilogy, Toei Company handled the overall production, but the animation work went to Sunrise instead.

During 430 Space Shuttle, about 20 minutes was used to showcase a cartoon, these cartoons are adapted into Cantonese, and usually from Japanese Animation.

The Animation codec is a fast and lossless ( if encoded at 100 % quality ) QuickTime video codec created by Apple Computer to enable playback of RGB video in real time without expensive hardware.

alt = Animation showing the continents separating from a single mass, making creating the Atlantic in the process

* Animation demonstrates the upwelling process.

Animation methods have become far more varied in recent years-today's cartoons could be created using any number of interesting methods, mostly using computers to make the animation process cheaper and faster.

The process was awarded, Digital Cartoon and Animation Process.

Invented by Dave Spencer for the 1985 Disney film The Black Cauldron, the APT ( Animation Photo Transfer ) process was a technique for transferring the animators ' art onto cels.

* Animation Toolworks ' Library-Various essays on the animation process

Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a series of drawn images ( an animated cartoon ), or by repeatedly making small changes to a model ( see claymation and stop motion ), and then photographing the result.

Disney studios stopped using cels in 1990 when Computer Animation Production System ( CAPS ) replaced this element in their animation process.

* Art of Disney Animation is an interactive exhibit where guests watch a film about the process of animation, engage in interactive activities teaching about the history of animation, and can participate in Animation Academy.

The 2001 book Producing Animation by Catherine Winder and Zahra Dowlatbadi ( Johnston's assistant on The Pagemaster ) recommends against making story changes during the animation process.

Following the closure of Kaleida Labs, Wainwright went on to serve as the principal architect of MaxScript, a scripting language for 3D Studio Max that has been used to process content for gaming and 3D applications such as the Maxis Sims programs ( see Automating The Sims Character Animation Pipeline with MaxScript ).

* Sony Animation approached the New York Film Academy to create a special acting workshop to train Sony animators to better understand the actor's process and appropriate character behavior.

Animation director Chuck Jones noted that Bugs Bunny soon began to outwit Yosemite Sam ( the creation of the senior director, Friz Freleng ), so he decided to create the opposite type of character ; one who was quiet and soft-spoken, but whose actions were incredibly destructive and legitimately dangerous.

Animation had become so widely accepted by the beginning of the 21st century that, in 2001, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced a new Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

The partnership between BRB and Nippon Animation worked so well, that they collaborated in another successful animated series two years after Dogtanian called Around the World with Willy Fog in 1983.

Was removed due to the fact that Atari had no idea if her final design was approved by Toho, was then locked, however it was discovered that Simon Strange had left her in the game still and that she can still be used via Hacking, so he was ordered to removed her completely prior to release, all that remains of Biollante is her Weapon Animation for her Acid Spray.

Joseph: King of Dreams is a 2000 American animated musical film and the first and so far only direct-to-video release from DreamWorks Animation.

In order to bring down the budget so that layouts could be completed in house, a step normally done overseas by cheap foreign labor, the show opted to build three entire cartoon segments from vintage Terrytoons cartoon stock footage: " Mighty's Musical Classics ", " Animation Concerto ", and the bulk of " Scrappy's Playhouse ".

Though StarToons struck an alliance with Heart Animation Studios in India during the late 1990s so that they could combine the American experience with cheap Indian labor, it wasn't enough.

According to Disney Animation Studios, Chase was so busy working on Lilo & Stitch: The Series that she was replaced by renowned child actress and good friend Dakota Fanning.