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Animation
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Animation
Definition from Wikipedia:
Animation is the rapid display of This animation moves at 10 frames per second.
a sequence of images of 2-D
artwork or model positions in
order to create an illusion of
movement. It is an optical
illusion of motion due to the
phenomenon of persistence of
vision.
The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames.
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Traditional Animation
• Cel animation
• ‘Cel’ comes from ‘Celluloid’
- transparent acetate sheet
• traditionally hand-drawn
• many techniques (read
further on Wiki)
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Stop Motion
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It’s all digital
nowadays.
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Computer Animation
2D Animation 3D Animation
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2D Animation
• Several techniques to produce an animation
• Use MS-PowerPoint to make one
• Macromedia Flash is very common
• It’s Frame/Time-Based animation
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Terminology
• Sprites - the objects that move during the
animation
• Tweening - the automatic creation of
necessary motion of the sprite between the
start and end locations (keyframes)
• Motion tweening
• Shape tweening
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3D Animation
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Toy Story
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Final Fantasy
Spirit Within
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Making 3D Animation
• Modeling - create/model 3D objects then
add color, texture, and material
• Animating - establish how many frames and
decide on the specific animation that will
take place (using keyframe & tweening)
• Rendering - each frame is rendered one at a
time
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