Conventional Animation

Abstract

Animation can be defined in different ways. For John Halas [1968], one of the world’s most famous animators, “movement is the essence of animation.” A similar approach defines animation as “art in movement.” Some more precise definitions are given below:

• 1. Animation is a technique in which the illusion of movement is created by photographing a series of individual drawings on successive frames of film. The illusion is produced by projecting the film at a certain rate (typically 24 frames/ second).

• 2. Animation refers to the process of dynamically generating a series of frames of a set of objects, in which each frame is an alteration of the previous frame.