What is Animation?
Animation is a method of manipulating static images and making them appear as moving images to create an illusion of motion. The illusion is created by the repetitive motion of static images at different frame rates.
1. 3D Animation
3D Animation brings digital objects to life, creating the illusion that they are moving in three-dimensional space. Despite being displayed on a 2D screen, these animations mimic the principles of 3-Dimension in the real world. These types of animations are now widely used for all scenarios. Be it movies or advertisements, you can see them everywhere.
2. 2D Animation
Two-dimensional or 2D animation involves creating movements using static images in two dimensions. Moving images rapidly in a sequence creates an illusion of movement - like a film. Just like 3D animation, 2D animation is widely used in movies, advertisements, promotions, and more.
3. Whiteboard Animation
Whiteboard Animation is an animation type where an artist draws a scene on a whiteboard and records it as an illustrative story. Whiteboard animation is a unique video animation technique that takes the audience into an immersive experience, as each frame is constructed right in front of the user.In addition, these kinds of animations usually have a narration accompanied while the story told is being drawn. Whiteboard animations are widely used in explainer videos as this technique helps demonstrate ideas in an easy and effective manner.
4. Typography Animation
Animated Typography or Kinetic Typography is a type of animation that involves moving text with effects like Expanding, Shrinking, or anything else that suits the scene. This kind of animation is often used in movies and other videos as title screens, intro segments, credits segments, etc.
5. Claymation
Claymation, or Clay Animation, as the name suggests, is a type of stop motion animation that involves creating a scene in clay. Right from the characters to the scene, everything is made in clay. This type of animation is widely used in classic children's movies as they are appealing and unique. While one of the popular examples is Chicken run, we don’t see this kind of movies these days.
6. Stop Motion Animation
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.
7. Traditional Cel Animation
Cel animation is one of the oldest and most traditional forms of animation that involves hand drawing every scene on clear celluloid sheets. The sheets with the painted background are placed one on top of the other. As you might have guessed, the ‘cel’ refers to the celluloid sheets on which the drawing is done. This type of animation was widely used by artists in Walt Disney Studios.
8. Rotoscope Animation
Rotoscope is a type of animation that involves tracing live-action videos and drawing over them to make the animation look realistic. This was usually done by projecting the live-action images on a glass panel, then tracing and customizing the subject according to the scene. The major use case of Rotoscope Animation is in live-action films where the matte or an outline of a character from the film can be extracted from a scene and put to use for another scene with a different background.
9. Flipbook Animation
Flipbook animation is one of the earliest forms of animation that involves a small book with drawings on its pages. The pages represent the frames of the video. When the pages are flipped rapidly, the series of pictures animate and convey the story. Flipbook animations are usually used in offline media such as magazines, children's story books, etc.
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