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What Is Computer Animation?: Dave Hogan

Computer animation involves using software to draw, model, and animate objects and characters in digital landscapes. There are two types: computer-assisted animation uses computers to help speed up traditional 2D animation techniques like key framing and tweening; computer-generated animation creates 3D animated worlds and characters entirely with software.

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What Is Computer Animation?: Dave Hogan

Computer animation involves using software to draw, model, and animate objects and characters in digital landscapes. There are two types: computer-assisted animation uses computers to help speed up traditional 2D animation techniques like key framing and tweening; computer-generated animation creates 3D animated worlds and characters entirely with software.

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What is Computer Animation?

Computer software programs help animators give life to creatures


such as this alien
DAVE HOGAN/GETTY IMAGES

To animate means "to give life to" [source: ACMSIGGRAPH]. An animator's


job is to take a static image or object and literally bring it to life by giving
it movement and personality. In computer animation, animators
use software to draw, model and animate objects and characters in vast
digital landscapes. There are two basic kinds of computer
animation: computer-assisted and computer-generated.

Computer-assisted animation is typically two-dimensional (2-D), like


cartoons [source: ACMSIGGRAPH]. The animator draws objects and
characters either by hand or with a computer. Then he positions his
creations in key frames, which form an outline of the most important
movements. Next, the computer uses mathematical algorithms to fill in
the "in-between" frames. This process is called tweening. Key framing
and tweening are traditional animation techniques that can be done by
hand, but are accomplished much faster with a computer.

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