Types of Animation

Animation is an illusion, it can be created in many different ways. The three major type of animation which is so familiar are

1. Traditional Animation

Traditional animation is also known as cel animation. In this method frames are drawn by hand. Celluloid is a transparent paper where the drawings are drawn in different stages and captured by special camera called rostrum camera.

2. Stop motion Animation

Stop motion animation is created in a simple way using any object or character by photographing the sequence of images with slight changes and edited as a movie. 

3. Computer Animation

Today computer animation is used to create films, advertisements, educational contents and so on. These animations are created by latest technology softwares. Computer animation can be differentiated as 2D animation and 3D animation. I will post a new article about 2D and 3D animation in detail separately.