Animation Style Overview 4i3j16

Apr 14, 2016

If you've chilled in front of your Disney 'toons as well as computer animated shows and even claymation. Check out the 411 on each type, right here.

Animation 101 3g6i6v

There are a lot of different styles of animation but the way cartoons are created is very similar for all of them. What usually happens to make a voice actors, to become the finished cartoon.

Traditional Animation 3v3y18

Also called cel animation, this is the style used by most North American cartoons like North America.

Anime 1k91y

Anime is a style of animation from Japan that has become very popular in North America with shows like InuYasha. It's similar to Traditional Animation, but the characters are usually drawn with huge eyes, tiny noses and crazy hair. The action is usually exaggerated as well with warped facial expressions, insane combat, and lots of shouting.

Computer Animation 5u1w5t

Computer-animated TV shows and movies, like anime or claymation.

Stop-Motion / Claymation 2x1y5c

This is a weird style of animation. Rather than drawing the characters and scenes, Wallace and Gromit movie was made.

Did U Know? 2e1m37

Paleolithic cave paintings show attempts to capture motion in still life drawings where animals are drawn with a bunch of legs in different positions.
The flip book was invented as simple animation in the 1800s, way before you made a stick figure walk across your text book in class!
The first animated film using hand-drawn animation was called Fantasmagorie, created in 1908.
Modern animation runs at 24 frames per second or more, since the human eye can recognize the images flashing at less than 16 frames per second, which would be annoying.