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Animation is essentially a series of images. When these images are played together in order they create the illusion that the subject of the animation is moving. Animation is a popular film technique at the moment, rising in fame very quickly. For the first time ever, the Cannes Film Festival was opened with Disney and Pixar's animated film //Up. In animation, as with all businesses, there are the big names. In animation, the big names are Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks. //

Some different types of animation

Claymation Claymation movies take a lot of time and patience. Characters and scenery are made entirely out of clay, and each frame needs to be taken with a camera, then the filming is stopped and the characters moved slightly. Then the whole process starts again. This continues until the movie is completely filmed. Then the images are put into the computer and played together. //Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit// is a claymation film, as is Tim Burton's //Corpse Bride.//

Animation using drawings This type of animation is hardly used anymore. It is a series of drawings that makes up the entire movie. Disney's //Snow White// is an example of this type of animation. Drawn animation is done by a professional artist. It is very tricky as every detail on a character or piece of scenery must be continous unless someone is moving, in which case the character can be somewhat altered to fit with the movement.

Animation on the computer This is probably the most common animation style used today. The characters and landscapes are completely computer generated. This makes the animations easy to create, and it also allows the animator to go as wild as they would like. Anything is easily possible with computer animation. An example of computer animation is Toy Story.