Report on animation.

Animation over the years has changed greatly. So many different techniques have been used and there are forever new ways of creating an animation. When animation first came around, it was just still images of things such as animals, They would draw pictures of them in different angles to try and give off the idea that the animals were moving if you looked at the images one after the other. There was also several toys that were made which had different angles of the same image in a circle, You were meant to spin the top of it, Which made the images spin round and because of the angle's it gave off the impression that it was moving. There is also a Zoetrope which is pretty much the same thing, It spins and makes the images blur together to give off the impression of movement, Pretty much the equivalent of a motion picture, Also Zoetrope is apparently greek for "wheel of life"

In present time, Animation is done completely different. It's all mostly done on computers, With CGI (Computer Generated Images) they create the images on the computer and edit them all together to make a short film, Which they turn into an animation. Animation's today still use storyboards, Which they draw out. But they can still use other materials such as clay and plasticine, They make their characters, Take pictures then move the characters into the position that is needed, Take the next picture then repeat the process.