Techniques

Traditional animation

Main article: Acceptable animation

An archetype of acceptable animation, a horse activated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th aeon photos

Traditional activity (also alleged cel activity or hand-drawn animation) was the activity acclimated for a lot of activated films of the 20th century. The alone frames of a commonly activated blur are photographs of drawings, which are aboriginal fatigued on paper. To actualize the apparition of movement, anniversary cartoon differs hardly from the one afore it. The animators' assets are traced or photocopied assimilate cellophane acetate bedding alleged cels, which are abounding in with paints in assigned colors or tones on the ancillary adverse the band drawings. The completed appearance cels are photographed one-by-one assimilate motion account blur adjoin a corrective accomplishments by a belvedere camera.

The acceptable cel activity activity became anachronistic by the alpha of the 21st century. Today, animators' assets and the backgrounds are either scanned into or fatigued anon into a computer system. Various software programs are acclimated to blush the assets and simulate camera movement and effects. The final activated section is achievement to one of several supply media, including acceptable 35 mm blur and newer media such as agenda video. The "look" of acceptable cel activity is still preserved, and the appearance animators' plan has remained about the aforementioned over the accomplished 70 years. Some activity producers accept acclimated the appellation "tradigital" to call cel activity which makes all-encompassing use of computer technology.

Examples of commonly activated affection films cover Pinocchio (United States, 1940), Animal Farm (United Kingdom, 1954), and Akira (Japan, 1988). Acceptable activated films which were produced with the aid of computer technology cover The Lion King (US, 1994) Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) (Japan, 2001), and Les Triplettes de Belleville (France, 2003).

Full activity refers to the activity of bearing high-quality commonly activated films, which consistently use abundant assets and believable movement. Fully activated films can be done in a array of styles, from added realistically activated works such as those produced by the Walt Disney flat (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King) to the added 'cartoony' styles of those produced by the Warner Bros. activity studio. Many of the Disney activated appearance are examples of abounding animation, as are non-Disney works such as The Secret of NIMH (US, 1982), The Iron Giant (US, 1999), and Nocturna (Spain, 2007).

Limited activity involves the use of beneath abundant and/or added august assets and methods of movement. Pioneered by the artists at the American flat United Productions of America, bound activity can be acclimated as a adjustment of august aesthetic expression, as in Gerald McBoing Boing (US, 1951), Yellow Submarine (UK, 1968), and abundant of the anime produced in Japan. Its primary use, however, has been in bearing cost-effective activated agreeable for media such as television (the plan of Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, and added TV activity studios) and after the Internet (web cartoons).

Rotoscoping is a technique, patented by Max Fleischer in 1917, area animators trace live-action movement, anatomy by frame. The antecedent blur can be anon affected from actors' outlines into activated drawings, as in The Lord of the Rings (US, 1978), or acclimated in a august and alive manner, as in Waking Life (US, 2001) and A Scanner Darkly (US, 2006). Some added examples are: Fire and Ice (USA, 1983) and Heavy Metal (1981).

Live-action/animation is a technique, if accumulation hand-drawn characters into reside activity shots. One of the beforehand uses of it was Koko the Clown if Koko was fatigued over reside activity footage. Added examples would cover Who Framed Roger Rabbit (USA, 1988), Space Jam (USA, 1996) and Osmosis Jones (USA, 2002).