Types of Animation

• Animation


  is the process of creating the illusion of motion and change by rapidly displaying a sequence of images or frames.
• "to animate"

  • literally means to give life to
• Persistence of Vision Theory

  • also known as persistence of visual perception
  • A theory that claims the brain retains an image for a fraction of second after it disappears from our sight.
  • When a series of still images is shown in rapid succession, the brain blends them together, creating the illusion of continuous motion.
• FPS (Frames Per Second)

  • refers to the number of individual frames (or still images) displayed or recorded per second to create the illusion of motion. It is a measure of the smoothness and fluidity of motion in an animation or video.
• Traditional Cel Animation

  • Cel animation is one of the oldest and most traditional forms of animation. Involves hand drawing every scene on clear celluloid sheets
  • The sheets with the painted background are placed one on top of the other.
• 2D Animation

  • Two-dimensional animation involves creating movements using static images in two dimensions.
  • Characters and backgrounds are drawn directly into the computer, and software assists in creating the animation by sequencing the drawings.
• 3D Animation

  • Involves creating characters, objects, and environments in a three-dimensional digital space.
  • Artists use specialized software like Blender to model, rig, animate, and render scenes.
  • Used extensively in animated films, video games, and visual effects for movies.
• Typography Animation

  • Animated Typography or Kinetic Typography is a type of animation that involves moving text with effects.
  • This kind of animation is often used in movies and other videos as title screens, intro segments, credits segments
• Flipbook Animation

  • display that contains many pages, with each page being only slightly different than the next. When the pages are flipped at a rapid rate, the images appear to have movement
• Stop Motion Animation

  • is a technique where the objects used in the scene are physically moved in every frame and photographed.
  • These individual photographs are edited and created into a sequence to create an illusion of movement. This is usually used in cartoons, short films, commercials, and other creative mediums.
  • Examples are, cutout, erasure, claymation, silhouette, puppetry
• Rotoscope


  • the process of creating animated sequences by tracing over live-action footage frame by frame