Animate is to infuse life into something that is inanimate or without life. An animation film breathes life into painted or drawn characters. The heroes and heroines are no real-life movie stars or animals and birds.

Animated films with the fast display of a series of images to create the illusion of movement. It is a kind of optical illusion of movement. The phenomenon is known as persistence of vision.

Animation effects began a long time ago, and not some new invention of the Movie World. In the cave paintings of the Paleolithic age of the animals had many legs superimposed on positions in an attempt to capture movement. In the flip-books were popular in 1800 when the rapidly thumbing through this special books of the viewer has the impression of movement. However, it was not until the debut of motion picture films, animated films really took off. No one person can be credited, the creator of animation films. It was about several people in several projects.
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