Animation & Cartoons

Animation is the optical illusion of motion
created by the consecutive display of images of static elements. In film and
video production, this refers to techniques by which each frame of a film or
movie is produced individually. Computer animation is the art of creating moving
images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and
animation. Anime is a medium of animation originating in Japan, with distinctive
character and background aesthetics that visually set it apart from other forms
of animation. An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers
to look similar to something hand-drawn) moving picture for the cinema, TV or
computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very
short one). Manga is the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons. Outside of
Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Special effects
(abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment
industry to visualize scenes that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as
space travel. Stop motion is a generic gereral term for an animation technique
which makes static objects appear to move.