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"What we describe as animated photography is not animation at all. All that happens is that a long string of snap-shot photographs..are passed at rapid speed before the eye." - F. A. Talbot ''Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked'' 1912 | "What we describe as animated photography is not animation at all. All that happens is that a long string of snap-shot photographs..are passed at rapid speed before the eye." - F. A. Talbot ''Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked'' 1912 | ||
'''Animation''' is the use of motion picture media to create the illusion of motion. While a conventional motion picture records objects in motion, an animated picture records still objects. The animated film may record thousands of individual drawings or it may record a single object, which is moved between frames. The art of animation predates cinema, having its beginnings with devices such as the zoetrope. | '''Animation''' is the use of motion picture media to create the illusion of motion. While a conventional motion picture records objects in motion, an animated picture records still objects. The animated film may record thousands of individual drawings or it may record a single object, which is moved between frames. The art of animation predates cinema, having its beginnings with devices such as the zoetrope.[[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:01, 10 July 2024
"What we describe as animated photography is not animation at all. All that happens is that a long string of snap-shot photographs..are passed at rapid speed before the eye." - F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked 1912
Animation is the use of motion picture media to create the illusion of motion. While a conventional motion picture records objects in motion, an animated picture records still objects. The animated film may record thousands of individual drawings or it may record a single object, which is moved between frames. The art of animation predates cinema, having its beginnings with devices such as the zoetrope.