The animated image is that one image that is characterized by the movement it presents. Meanwhile, such a state is possible thanks to the animation.
animation is a process that is executed to create in the viewer that sensation of movement either from images or drawings.
There are many techniques used to create the aforementioned movement. From pictures that can be made, drawing, painting or photographing, the minuscule changes will be made repeatedly to a reality model or, failing that, to a virtual three-dimensional model; it is also possible to animate actors and objects that belong to reality.
Due to the intricacies that it involves, animation is a complex job, therefore, most of the animated production that we see today comes from companies specialized in animation that have already been in charge of organizing the work and that somehow monopolize the content. of this type, although, in recent times, what is called author animationwhich consists of the personal work of one or a few artists with knowledge and experience in the field, using new technologies.
Among the types of animation are: Cartoon (created from the drawing of each frame, first, each frame was painted and later filmed, then, with the appearance of cel animation, invented by Brad and Hurd in the year 1910the above procedure was abandoned), stop motion (animation of dolls, objects, plasticine figures from the recording frame by frame; the movement of the aforementioned static objects is simulated by taking photographs; the main difference with the previous one is that here no drawings are made but the image comes from reality and photography), pixilation (stop motion variant, animated objects are people and objects, not models), rotoscoping (it is drawn directly on the reference), cutout animation (use figures cut out of paper or photographs, the bodies are built by cutting the parts and then by moving and replacing the parts the different movements are achieved).
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