Quest (1996 film): History and Key Facts
Quest is a 1996 German animated short film directed by Tyron Montgomery, written (story) and produced by Thomas Stellmach at the University of Kassel - Art College.
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Computer animation: History and Key Facts
Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating moving images.
Ryan (film): History and Key Facts
Ryan is a 2004 short animated documentary film created and directed by Chris Landreth about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who had lived on skid row in Montreal as a result of drug and alcohol ab
Direct manipulation animation: History and Key Facts
Direct manipulation animation is one of the many forms of stop motion, but certainly blurring the distinction between stop motion and regular flat (drawing or "cel") animation.
Three Little Pigs (film): History and Key Facts
Three Little Pigs is a 1933 American animated short film released by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett.
Estonian animation: History and Key Facts
The tradition of Estonian animation dates back to the 1930s when the first experimental films were made.
Tin Toy: History and Key Facts
Tin Toy is a 1988 American animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter.
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom: History and Key Facts
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A.
The Two Mouseketeers: History and Key Facts
The Two Mouseketeers is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 68th Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor and released to theaters as early as January 27, 1952 by Metro-Goldw
Animation: History and Key Facts
Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby pictures are created or manipulated and then played in sequence to create the illusion of moving images.
Go motion: History and Key Facts
Go motion is a variation of stop motion animation which incorporates motion blur into each frame involving motion.
The Ugly Duckling (1939 film): History and Key Facts
The Ugly Duckling (re-titled as Ugly Duckling in reissues) is a Silly Symphonies animated short film produced by Walt Disney, based on the 1843 fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian An
War Is Over!: History and Key Facts
War Is Over!
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day: History and Key Facts
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is a 1968 American animated musical fantasy short film based on the third, fifth, ninth, and tenth chapters of Winnie-the-Pooh and the second, eighth, and nin
Leica reel: History and Key Facts
In film, specifically animation, a Leica reel (also known as story reel or animatic) is a type of storyboarding device used in the production of potential series or features.
The Yankee Doodle Mouse: History and Key Facts
The Yankee Doodle Mouse is a 1943 American one-reel animated cartoon in Technicolor.
Mickey Mousing: History and Key Facts
In animation and film, "Mickey Mousing" (synchronized, mirrored, or parallel scoring) is a film technique that syncs the accompanying music with the actions on screen, "Matching movement to music
Live2D: History and Key Facts
Live2D is an animation technique (not to be mistaken with software used to create Live2D animation such as Live2D Cubism) used to animate static images—usually anime-style characters—that involve
Pixilation: History and Key Facts
Pixilation is a stop-motion technique in which live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slight
Pose space deformation: History and Key Facts
Pose space deformation is a computer animation technique which is used to deform a mesh on skeleton-driven animation.
Previsualization: History and Key Facts
Previsualization (also known as previsualisation, previs, previz, pre-rendering, preview, or wireframe windows) is the process of visualizing scenes, sequences, or environments before their physi
Rostrum camera: History and Key Facts
A rostrum camera is a specially designed camera used in television production and filmmaking to animate a still picture or object.
Scanimate: History and Key Facts
Scanimate is an analog computer animation (video synthesizer) system created by Lee Harrison III of Denver, Colorado.
Sand animation: History and Key Facts
Sand animation is a form of stop motion that manipulates images formed with sand under a camera to create animation.
Skeletal animation: History and Key Facts
Skeletal animation or rigging is a technique in computer animation in which a character (or other articulated object) is represented in two parts: a polygonal or parametric mesh representation of
Special effect: History and Key Facts
Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theater, film, television, video game, amusement park, and simulator industries to simulate the
Squigglevision: History and Key Facts
Squigglevision is a method of computer animation in which the outlines of shapes are made to wiggle and undulate, emulating the effect of sketchily hand-drawn animation.
Stick figure: History and Key Facts
A stick figure (also known as a stick man, stick woman, or stick person) is a very simple drawing of a human or other animal, in which the limbs (arms and legs) and torso are represented using st
Syncro-Vox: History and Key Facts
Syncro-Vox (sometimes spelled Synchro-Vox) is a filming method that combines static images with moving images, the most common use of which is to superimpose talking lips on a photograph of a cel
SVG animation: History and Key Facts
Animation of Scalable Vector Graphics, an open XML-based standard vector graphics format is possible through various means: Scripting: ECMAScript is a primary means of creating animations and in
Time-lapse photography: History and Key Facts
Time-lapse photography is a technique that causes the time of videos to appear to be moving faster than normal and thus lapsing.
Twelve basic principles of animation: History and Key Facts
Disney's twelve basic principles of animation were introduced by the Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation.[a] The principles
Whiteboard animation: History and Key Facts
Whiteboard animation is the process in which an author physically draws and records an illustrated story using a whiteboard, or whiteboard-like surface, and marker pens.