The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods.

The red bars mark the pivot element ; at the start of the animation, the element farthest to the right hand side is chosen as the pivot.

Mike Judge himself is highly critical of the animation and quality of earlier episodes, in particular the first two --" Blood Drive "/" Give Blood " and " Door to Door "-- which he described as " awful, I don't know why anybody liked it ...

On July 14, 2010, a spokesperson for MTV Networks informed a New York Post reporter that Mike Judge is creating a new Beavis and Butt-Head series, that Judge will reprise his voice-acting roles for the show, and that the animation will be hand-drawn.

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

Judge's gory send-up When Animated Animals Attack is also a cult hit among animation festival fans in North America, as are the works of Don Hertzfeldt ( Billy's Balloon, Rejected, The Meaning of Life ) and Robert Smigel.

In the graphics pipeline, it is the last major step, giving the final appearance to the models and animation.

An example of computer animation which is produced in the " motion capture " technique

Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics.

Sometimes the target of the animation is the computer itself, but sometimes the target is another medium, such as film.

Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the stop motion techniques used in traditional animation with 3D models and frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations.

Finally, the animation is rendered.

Conventional hand-drawn cartoon animation often uses 15 frames / s in order to save on the number of drawings needed, but this is usually accepted because of the stylized nature of cartoons.

Developers of computer games and 3D video cards strive to achieve the same visual quality on personal computers in real-time as is possible for CGI films and animation.

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.

A popular amateur approach to animation is via the animated GIF format, which can be uploaded and seen on the web easily.

In 2D computer animation, moving objects are often referred to as “ sprites .” A sprite is an image that has a location associated with it.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

While " animation " designates any style of illustrated images seen in rapid succession to give the impression of movement, the word " cartoon " is most often used in reference to TV programs and short films for children featuring anthropomorphized animals, superheroes, the adventures of child protagonists and related genres.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

" The Dover Boys is also one of the first uses of stylized animation in American film, breaking away from the more realistic animation styles influenced by the Disney Studio.

The animation lacks smoothness because each frame is completely independent of any other frame.

Though the arrangement of the theme music stayed the same throughout the entire series run ( although there are subtle differences between the themes in various seasons-especially the closing themes-and Whatever Turns You On used a completely different theme song ), the opening animation itself changed in different ways.

Where most prior Disney Afternoon series included at least some characters from classic Disney animation, Darkwing Duck featured a completely original cast.

Saperstein kept UPA afloat in the 1960s and beyond by abandoning animation production completely after the animation studio closed permanently in 1964 and sold off UPA's library of cartoons, although the studio retained the licenses and copyrights on Mr. Magoo, Gerald McBoing-Boing and the other UPA characters.

Warner Bros. shut down its animation studio completely in 1963, and the directors of Termite Terrace went their separate ways.

While Disney had made the film Tron — which extensively mixed live action, traditional animation, and CGI — in 1982, and introduced the CAPS system to enhance traditional animation in 1990s The Rescuers Down Under, a completely computer-animated feature film had yet to be made.

Robert Zemeckis ' film The Polar Express, starring Tom Hanks in five roles, was completely CGI animation, but used performance capture technology to animate the characters.

Harryhausen draws a distinction between films that combine special effects animation with live action and films that are completely animated such as the films of Tim Burton, Nick Park, Henry Selick, Ivo Caprino, Ladislav Starevich and many others ( including his own fairy tale shorts ) which he sees as pure " puppet films ", and which are more accurately ( and traditionally ) called " puppet animation ".

Originally, Marvel Films planned to make the backgrounds completely CGI while Spider-Man ' webslinged ' around New York, yet due to budget constraints were forced to use traditional cel based animation while occasionally using CGI backgrounds.

Movies use motion capture for CG effects, in some cases replacing traditional cel animation, and for completely computer-generated creatures, such as Gollum, The Mummy, King Kong, Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, the Na ' vi from the film Avatar, and Clu from Tron: Legacy.

The resulting film uses completely digital animation.

Tools and features rarely used or completely unrelated to creating 3D game models were removed ( most if not all of the more complex rendering, materials, shaders, physics simulation, and some of the more advanced geometry tools, plus the rendering engine ), leaving the core modeling, texturing, and basic animation rigging and keyframing capabilities.

For example, a move with jumping properties, such as a hopkick, will be completely invulnerable during most of its animation time to all of an opponent's low attacks.

However, he thinks that only Miyazaki completely mastered a genuinely superior animation technique at present.

Season eight of Red vs. Blue is the first season of the series to make extensive use of animation, and Burnie revealed in an interview that he and Oum are in the process of creating a completely animated series with no machinima elements.

Although an animation model had been created for Jetfire based on the appearance of the toy ( which could be seen in the original toy commercial advertising the figure ), this was quickly scrapped and completely redesigned so as to no longer resemble the Valkyrie.

They filled the entire screen, as the floating pictures animation was completely eliminated.

The animation of both incarnations and its soundtrack are completely identical, although the voicing actors are different.

2005's Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever: The Case of the Giant Flying Lizard was the first Inspector Gadget animated production to be completely rendered using 3D computer animation, and returned Gadget to his position as a police inspector in Metro City.

The game has received praise for its music, which was composed by Ray Norrish, and for the spectacular introduction sequence that came with the Amiga version: the first 880KB floppy disk of the 2-disk set was completely devoted to an introduction sequence featuring state of the art animation and dance music.