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History
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2D computer animation
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Web animations
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Animation methods
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Overview
- Digitally
- Motion pictures Film
- Computer-generated imagery
- Still images Still image
- Moving images Moving image
- Modern computer animation Virtual cinematography
- 3D computer graphics
- Stop motion
- Traditional animation
- Props Theatrical property
- Computer monitor
- Frames per second Frame rate
- Television
- Visual system
- Frame Film frame
- Jerkiness
- Virtual skeleton Skeletal animation
- Key frames Key frame
- Tweening Inbetweening
- Interpolation
- Rendered Rendering (computer graphics)
- Composited Compositing
Computer-generated animation
- Asset driven Digital asset
- Fluid simulation Fluid animation
- Animators Animator
- Algorithms Algorithm
- Mass
- Force
- Gravity Gravitation
- Onion skinning
3D computer animation
- Spline Spline (mathematics)
- Bézier curves Bézier curve
- Noise Perlin noise
- Pseudo-random values Pseudorandomness
- Simulation
2D computer animation
- 2D 2D computer graphics
- Real-time renderings Real-time rendering
- Sprites Sprite (computer graphics)
- Pseudocode
- Software
- The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
- The Rescuers Down Under
- Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
- Aladdin Aladdin (1992 Disney film)
- The Lion King
- Pocahontas Pocahontas (1995 film)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)
- Hercules Hercules (1997 film)
- Mulan Mulan (1998 film)
- Tarzan Tarzan (1999 film)
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)
- Balto Balto (film)
- Anastasia Anastasia (1997 film)
- Titan A.E.
- The Prince of Egypt
- The Road to El Dorado
History
- Bell Telephone Laboratories Bell Labs
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Kitty Кошечка (мультфильм)
- BESM
- Westworld Westworld (film)
- Futureworld
- Wire-frame Wire-frame model
- University of Utah
- Edwin Catmull
- Fred Parke
- A Computer Animated Hand
- SIGGRAPH
- Game engines Game engine
- Machinima
- Independent animation
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Tron
- Anime
- Golgo 13: The Professional
- VeggieTales
- ReBoot
- Toy Story
- Disney
- Pixar
- Anthropomorphic
- Special effects Special effect
- Modern era of U.S. animation Modern animation in the United States
- Avatar Avatar (2009 film)
- The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (2016 film)
- The Lion King The Lion King (2019 film)
Animation methods
- Skeleton
- Stick figure
- Bind pose
- Avars Avar (animation variable)
- Facial animation
- Woody Woody (Toy Story)
- Tween Tweening
- Keyframing Keyframe
- Motion capture
- Live action
- Video cameras Video camera
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Bill Nighy
- Davy Jones Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Modeling
- Sculpted Digital sculpting
- Textures Texture mapping
- Keyframing
- Rhythm and Hues Studios
- Aslan
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- The Day After Tomorrow
- 2005 remake King Kong (2005 film)
- King Kong King Kong (1933 film)
- Andy Serkis
- Gollum
- Peter Jackson
- The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings (film series)
Equipment
- Workstation
- Silicon Graphics
- Render farm
- Movie cameras Movie camera
- Performance capture
- Bluescreens Chroma key
Facial animation
- Facial Action Coding System
- MPEG-4
- Face Animation Parameters Face Animation Parameter
- Microexpression
- Affective space Affect measures
- PAD emotional state model
- Avatars Avatar (computing)
Realism
- Photorealistic Photorealism
- Photorealistic rendering
- Uncanny valley
- The Polar Express The Polar Express (film)
- Beowulf Beowulf (2007 film)
- A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol (2009 film)
- Anthropomorphic Anthropomorphism
- Legendary creatures Legendary creature
- Flushed Away
- The Peanuts Movie
- Basic principles of animation 12 basic principles of animation
- Squash and stretch
Web animations
- Websites Website
- Amateur
- Operating systems Operating system
- Free and open-source Free and open-source software
- PowToon
- Vyond
- Clip art
- GIF
- Raster graphics
- Download
- Vector graphics
- Plugin Browser extension
- Flash animations Flash animation
- Flash Player
- Mobile devices Mobile device
- Mobile operating systems Mobile operating system
- Internet bandwidth Bandwidth (computing)
- Digital video
- Video compression
- QuickTime
- Microsoft Silverlight
- YouTube
- Flash Video
- HTML5
- JavaScript
- CSS animations CSS animation
- SVG animations SVG animation
- SmartSketch
- APNG
Detailed example
- Mathematics
- Polygons Polygon
- Graphical user interface
- Constructive solid geometry
- Boolean operations Boolean operation (Boolean algebra)
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Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Computer animation
Nodes185
Edges184
Triples129
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010811
Components1
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Computer animation
Top relations
related to Modeling · 24
Computer animation → Andy Serkis, Animation, Aslan, CGI, For, Gollum, Hues Studios, In, King Kong, Narnia, Objects, Peter Jackson's The Lord, Rhythm, Rings, Serkis, The Chronicles, The Day After Tomorrow, The Lion, These, Toy Story
related to history · 19
Computer animation → Bell Telephone Laboratories, BESM-4, Charles Csuri, Early, Edward, Frank, Hummingbird, In, James Shaffer, Kenneth, Kitty, Knowlton, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Metadata, Michael Noll, Nikolai Konstantinov, Other, Sinden, Zajac
has method · 13
Computer animation → Avar, Avars, In, Keyframing, Rather, T-Pose, The, There, They, Thus, Toy Story, Traditionally, Woody
related to Equipment · 11
Computer animation → Blender, Computer, Graphics, Instead, Many, Professional, Professionals, Programs, Silicon Graphics, Some, This
see also · 9
Computer animation → Animation, AnimationAnimation, CGI, Computer, Motion, New York Institute, OverHumanoid, Representation LanguageSkeletal, Technology Computer Graphics LabComputer
related to overview · 8
Computer animation → After, Before, Finally, For, However, Normally, Then, This
related to Realism · 7
Computer animation → Beowulf, Christmas Carol, Computer, Films, One, Realism, The Polar Express
related to Computer-generated animation · 6
Computer animation → CG' Animators, Computer-generated, Creators, There, These, This
related to Detailed example · 4
Computer animation → Another, Boolean, Computer, Most
related to External links · 4
Computer animation → Computer, Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
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Important terminology
animation computer 3d animations used also digital motion movement frames using films software frame model computer-generated many animated use 2d
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer animation | is a | process used for digitally generating moving images | 0.90 | text |
| Computer animation | is a | digital successor to stop motion and traditional animation | 0.90 | text |
| key frame animation - | instance of | some of which are digital representations of traditional animation - | 0.80 | text |
| some of which are only possible with a computer - such fluid simulation.'CG' Animators can break physical laws by using mathematical algorithms to cheat mass | instance of | some of which are digital representations of traditional animation - | 0.80 | text |
| force | instance of | some of which are digital representations of traditional animation - | 0.80 | text |
| gravity | instance of | some of which are digital representations of traditional animation - | 0.80 | text |
| and more | instance of | some of which are digital representations of traditional animation - | 0.80 | text |
| animating in layers | instance of | These keyframes can be used in more complex ways | 0.80 | text |
| ellipses with only a few keyframes | instance of | This also allows the creation of complex movements | 0.80 | text |
| 4D noise | instance of | and even scale of the movements at any point in the animation process.Procedural and node-based animationAnother way to automate 3D animation is to use procedural tools | 0.80 | text |
| 4D noise | instance of | Procedural and node-based animationAnother way to automate 3D animation is to use procedural tools | 0.80 | text |
| The Lion King | instance of | to the point that computer-animated films | 0.80 | text |
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