Animation is the art of making inanimate objects
appear to move. Animation is an artistic impulse
that long predates the movies. History's first
recorded animator is Pygmalion of Greek and
Roman mythology, a sculptor who created a figure
of a woman so perfect that he fell in love with
her and begged Venus to bring her to life.
The basis of all animation is the building up,
frame by frame, of the moving picture by exact
timing and choreography of both movement and
sound. All film movement is achieved by projecting
during every second of time a certain number
of frames, normally 24, each a still photograph
minutely varied from its predecessor, which
record the successive phases of the subject's
movements.
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