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.

Georges Melies was the first one to Dabble with special effects in the cinema through the use of animation techniques. By chance he discovered it - the stop-motion animation, as his camera happened to break. He was filming a bus. But if he fixed the camera on horseback came into view and the result was that the bus into a horse! J. Stuart Blackton was to combine the techniques of hand-drawn animation and stop-motion for the first time at the turn of the 20th Century. Blackton is often referred to as the first successful animator.

The French artist Emile Cohl from a film by hand-painted cartoon strip name Fantasmagorie in 1908. The film shows a stick move and meetings with other objects such as a bottle of wine, is a flower. Sometimes the hands of the animator at the scene. Each image was printed and then each was shot in a negative film, was a table effect. You could say that Fantasmagorie was the first animated film to make his debut.

Soon many other artists began to experiment. One newspaper cartoonist Winsor McCay was, began working with a team. He came to produce some noted films such as Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur. In the 1910’s cartoon animation films began normally the scene. The technique was known as cel animation.

Warner Bros and Walt Disney studio was legendary name in connection with full animation film industry in the world. Limited animation consumes less detailed. Japan and the United Productions of America animation films produced by this method. Another popular technique is rotoscoping. In 1917 Max Fleischer patented. Here are the animators copy frame-by-frame live action.

The other methods are stop-motion animation, sound, animation (with clay figures), cutout animation (with paper and cloth), silhouette animation, graphic animation, model animation, object animation and Puppet animation. In pixilation people are in stop-motion roles. This allows a surreal effects such as the disappearance of persons and appearance. The latest technology of computer animation includes many kinds of techniques. These consist of digitally on a computer machine.

Thus, we find that in animated films and drawings or paintings are individually photographed by stop-frame cinematography. A picture is a little different than the other, thus giving the illusion of movement. This is in rapid succession - over 24 frames per second. Animation can be used as a film technique and not a separate category of film. These films were ideal for the presentation of fairy tales and conquered the hearts of children for all time to come. It is difficult to find an adult, will not admit enjoy animation films.