animation techniques

i was off allot recently so i have to catch up with my college blogger account and this is

about animation techniques

just a couple words about animation techniques.

stop motion or model animation :also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame) isan-animation technique to make a  manipulated object appear to move by itself. The object is moved in tiny increments between individually photographed frames creating the illusion of movement when the set of frames is played as a continuous patterns. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using clay is described as clay animation or clay-mation. For example Wallace and Gromit -clay animation,Robot Chicken-stop motion animation.

Drawn animation: pop aye family guy and other things like futureama are drawn animations then they are coloured in

rotoscoping:One original use of  rotoscoping was in the star warz movie, it was used to make/create the glowing lightsaber effect, by creating a matte based on sticks held by the actors. To achieve this, editors traced a line over each frame with the prop, then enlarged each line and added the glow.Cut-out animation: such as southpark using cutouts and animating them together..

Computer animation or computer generated imagery: is the art of creating moving images with the use of computersan image is displayed on the computer screenand repeatedly replaced by a new image that is similar to the previous image, but advanced slightly in the time domain usually at a rate of 24 or 30 frames/second 

this technique is identical to how the illusion of movement is achieved withtelevision and motion pictures  for example shrek and toy story.