What is Animation? Definition and Types of Animation.

What is Animation? Definition and Types of Animation.

Animation is a technology to create an effect of a moving picture. It can build a beautiful effect and an illusion in the eye. People get fascinated with animation.

Today animations are used on websites, T.V, and Apps in different forms.

The growing popularity of animation has made it a great tool in marketing.

• It has numerous advantages for using on a website –
• It is engaging as it entertains its customer.
• It gives a shoutout to the world for your brand.
• Increase in sales.
• Boost customer experience by making the website user-friendly.

What is Animation?

Animation is the best patch for you if you are interested in drawing, sketching, or making cartoons.

Simply animation is a method of making any picture, drawing, or puppet move. It creates a fantasy movement, the retention rate of the effect is only 1/10 of a second.

In animation, applying multiple images in a quick cycle, our brain takes them as a single picture.

In the modern era, all cartoons are created by a computer; it gives a real image effect. In a film, normally, 24 frames per second are used. This is the best frame, as it makes the motion smooth.

Different types of Animation.

1.    Stop animation

In stop-animation, the character is still similar to a traditional-style flipbook. It consists of claymation, Pixelation, object-motion, Cutout animation, etc.

Stop motion is the older technology to create storytelling animation.3D computer animation is the advanced process of creating animation.

Physical motions are fixed in a frame; when moving characters are seized in a frame, an illusion is created. The Night before Christmas and Chicken run are examples of stop motion animation.

2. 2D (Vector)

Beauty and the beast is the best example of 2D animation. 2D animation comes under traditional animation, but 2D vector-based animation is a modern concept.

Vector has a pathway where there are many start and endpoints. By joining these joints, graphics are created, and shapes are built to form an image.

The best part is that the image can be resized with smooth motion.

3. Motion Graphics

A Motion Graphic is a digital graphic that are used in ads, title sequences, etc. It creates an illusion to convey some message to the viewer.

Motion Graphics is  a type of animation where sound effects are applied. Motion Graphic is widely used for business animation.

4. 3D

3D animation is the most popular and latest technology in animation. 3D animation is a hard tech tool to create animation on a computer. Some of the famous movies like Toy Story and COCO are 3D animation films.

The animator needs to apply a program to move the characters. The unique part of the 3D animation is that the entire body of the characters is viewable.

5. Traditional Animation

Traditional or Cell animation is an outdated technology that is time-consuming and expensive.

Images are painted or sketched by the artist one frame at a time on a celluloid sheet. The celluloid sheet is photographed and displayed on films.

Final takeaway

In the past few years, animation was very slow. The animation was created by using the frames-per-second technique.

It was very time-consuming, so nowadays, professionals use a combo of traditional style and computer animation.

With the advancement of technology, different types of tools are available in the market. As per your requirement and budget, you can use them.

Some of the best tools for animation are Adobe after effects, Cartoon Animator4, Dragonframe, Flipbook, 3ds Max, and many more.

Animation is the right career for you if you are an artist or a creative person. It is one of the most demanding and growing industries in the world.

FAQs

1. What are the possible cons of using animation on a website?

Ans: A poorly designed animation can slow your website and confuse visitors.

2. Which is the best animation website?

Ans: Some of the best animation websites to follow like-Cartoon Brew, Vimeo, Dribble, and Animation world network.

3. What animations are used by Disney and Pixar?

Ans: Disney works on the popular software Auto Maya, and Pixar uses in-house production by Pixar animation.