This document provides an overview of animation including its history and different types. It discusses cave paintings from 15,000-13,000 BCE potentially depicting movement as some of the earliest examples of animation. Other early forms mentioned include Egyptian sequential images of wrestlers and comics-like drawings. Traditional animation techniques are outlined such as zoetropes, praxinoscope, and flip books. Key figures in animation history like Winsor McCay, Walt Disney, and Heino Pars are also highlighted. Different animation methods like computer animation, 2D animation, stop-motion, puppet animation and pixilation are defined. The document concludes with sections on the animation process and tools used.