Animation+Notes


 * Animation Notes**
 * Animation** is the technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence.


 * Key frame animation** is when the important (key) frames are drawn, in-between action is filled in, then it is all captured on film


 * Cel animation** is hand-drawn animation on cels (short for celluloid), which are transparent sheets on which images are drawn


 * Stop motion animation** is a technique that physically manipulates an object that appears to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence


 * Claymation** (clay + animation) is a method of animation in which clay figures are filmed using stop-motion photography


 * Winsor McCay** is important to animation because he was the first commercially successful animator. He paved the way for other animators with his techniques, including the registration marks


 * John Randolph Bray** is important to animation because he created cel animation using his own ideas and building off of some of McCay’s unpatented ones.