animation

Everyday

1. A cartoon or film made by showing many drawings, models or computer pictures one after another so they seem to move. tree →
2. The art or work of making such films. tree →
3. Liveliness and excitement in the way someone talks or moves. tree →

In the lessons

In art and computing lessons children make simple animations with flip books, Scratch or stop-motion clay figures. In everyday life, many films and TV shows are animations. In stories, someone speaking with animation is lively. Phrases: computer animation, stop-motion animation, suspended animation (a state like deep sleep).

Examples

• We made a stop-motion animation with plasticine figures. tree →
• Animation needs many pictures every second. tree →
• My favourite animation is about a dragon who can't fly. tree →
• In Scratch, we coded an animation of a cat dancing. tree →
• She told the story with great animation, waving her arms. tree →
• A flip book is a simple kind of animation. tree →

Note

Uncountable for the art, countable for a single film. Verb: animate; a person who makes animations is an animator. Films often show 24 pictures (frames) per second.