The animation

What is?

It is the technique used to obtain a simulation of movement through drawings, images, inanimate objects.

Commonly the effect of animation is achieved by a rapid succession of sequential images that minimally differ from each other.

Types of animation in movies

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Cartoon: they are created by drawing frame by frame. It is a visual sequence of photographs that are obtained by hand drawing all the frames that compose it, which generates a movie of moving images.
 

-        Stop Motion: Animation technique that simulates the movement of static objects capturing the illusion of movement, photo by photo. The object moves little by little in each frame until the object moves by itself in the final projection plasticine / puppets / latex dolls.

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    The animation by substitution or the technique of spare parts: It is basically the same as the Stop Motion, the only difference is that the puppets that are used have interchangeable pieces as expressions or necessary movements.

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          The pixilation: Another variant of Stop Motion, the difference is that what we animate are actors and real objects, not models.

-          The Rotoscopia: It is based on drawing directly on a previously filmed reference, we record a real person and then those frames are projected onto the animator's desk. The technique was invented by the brothers Dave and Max Fleischer but Walt Disney was the one who popularized it, animating Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 

-        The animation of cuts: You can use figures cut out of cardboard, paper or even photographs. The bodies of the characters are constructed by cutting the moving parts and the animators change the position and replace the different parts that make up the character.

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