An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media

CHAPTER 7

Animation

…in spite of bending the laws of space, time, and reason to the limits of imagination, animated films tend to come over larger than life. This is because, above all other film techniques, animation allows concepts to be isolated, analyzed, reinforced, and presented in a direct form that is immediate and obvious.

— Stan Hayward, award winning animation writer, producer, and director

Animation creates the appearance of inanimate objects moving.

Introduction

Animation knows no limits as to what the process may accomplish; therefore, animation may use nonobjective and nonlinear plots and action sequences that live action finds difficult or impossible to complete without resorting to computer graphics imagery (CGI), which also ...