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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby pictures are created or manipulated and then played in sequence to create the illusion of moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animation has been recognised as an artistic medium, specifically…

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Animation

Nodes388
Edges387
Triples206
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005155
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Animation

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related to Television · 30
Animation → American, Austria/Germany/Japan, Barbapapa, Belgian, Cartoons, European, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Honey Bee, Italy/Japan, Japan/Germany, Japanese, Many, Maya, Männer/小さなバイキング, Quality, Saturday-morning, Scooby-Doo, SpongeBob SquarePants, The, The Flintstones
related to Features before CGI · 27
Animation → American, An American Tail, Bug Goes, Cristiani's Sin, Disney, Disney's, El Apóstol, Fantasia, Fleischer Studios, For, Gulliver's Travels, In, It, Italian-Argentine, May, Mr, Partly, Pinocchio, Quirino Cristiani, Ralph Bakshi
related to Other · 22
Animation → Aleksandr Petrov, British English, But, Character, Drawn-on-film, During, Erasure, Flip, For, Len Lye, Musical, Norman McLaren, Paint-on-glass, Pinscreen, Piotr Dumała, Sand, Software, Stage, Stan Brakhage, The
related to Mechanical · 13
Animation → Action League Now, An Audio-Animatron, Animatronics, Audio-Animatronics, Autonomatronics, Christiaan Huygens, Chuckimation, Disney, In, Linear Animation Generator, The, They, Walt Disney Imagineering
related to Silent era · 13
Animation → Cohl, Dinosaur, Fantasmagorie, Gertie, It, Ladislas Starevich, Little Nemo, Other, Stuart Blackton, The, The Haunted Hotel, When, Winsor McCay
related to Education, propaganda and commercials · 12
Animation → CIA, Cold War, Disney, During World War II, English, For, George Orwell's Animal Farm, It, Many American, The, These, Warner Bros
related to Awards · 10
Animation → Anima Mundi, As, ASIFA-Hollywood's Annie Awards, Awards, Best Animation, Brazil, China's Golden Rooster Award, Emile Awards, Europe, Many
related to Switch from cels to computers · 8
Animation → CAPS, Computer, Computer Animation Production System, Futureworld, It, Pixar, The Rescuers Down Under, The Walt Disney Company
related to Before cinematography · 6
Animation → For, In, Joseph Plateau's, Long, The, When
related to overview · 6
Animation → An, Cartoons, Computer, Other, The, This

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animated film films disney traditional many computer used created motion characters first often television animators also create live-action 3d would

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Animationis afilmmaking technique whereby pictures are created or manipulated and then played in sequence to create the illusion of moving images0.90text
Animationis arequirement to maintain a film's consistency from start to finish0.90text
Animationis aprocess of producing high-quality traditionally animated films that regularly use detailed drawings and plausible movement0.90text
Animationis atechnique combining hand-drawn characters into live action shots or live-action actors into animated shots0.90text
Animationis atechnique used in 2D animation0.90text
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collisionsinstance ofwhere violent pratfalls0.80text
and explosions occurinstance ofwhere violent pratfalls0.80text
often in ways that would be lethal in the real life.During the late 1980sinstance ofwhere violent pratfalls0.80text
the terminstance ofwhere violent pratfalls0.80text
the animated GIFinstance oftechnology0.80text
Flash animation were developed.In addition to short filmsinstance oftechnology0.80text

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