Animation

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Production

 

The real advantage of animation as an artificially constructed medium is the variety of ways that projects can be realized. This flexibility ensures that traditional and digital processes can co-exist, enabling traditionalists and purists to continue producing work in the field, but opening up the possibility that new participants can use animation also for communication, information, education, and entertainment productions. From simple projection devices, such as the zoetrope and praxinoscope, through traditional hand-drawn and painted cels, stop motion, and jointed puppets, to advanced computer-generated virtual animation, the continuing experimental possibilities of animation are central to its extraordinary success as ...