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You've viewed your favorite anime on Saturdays when you were younger. You've seen many computer animated anime movies, too. Ever wonder how they are made? Here are some animating basics to go into detail how shows are made.

What is animation? It is the stringing together of pictures, and taking photos them, to create what appears to be motion and action. Stop-motion animation uses figures, usually made out of clay courts, that can be shaped and formed, then photographed. The old movie King Kong used this process.

Anime animation does the same, but instead of using moldable figures, it uses pictures. Movement is established by changing the pictures slowly and gradually. For example, to create walking, one drawing has the right foot and left arm forward. The next shot has the right foot directly under the body, supporting the weight, while the left foot starts to lift off the ground. Next, the left foot starts to reach forward, and the right arm does also, and so on.

When you see those different pictures quickly, in a sequence, the human brain is taken into thinking that they are flowing from to another location, and the character appears to be walking, community . is really only a bunch of pictures. You're seeing motion when there isn't any. watch cartoons

But the actual pictures themselves are just one aspect of the whole anime making process. Artists need to be able to create interesting characters, story lines, settings, conflict, resolution, drama, feeling, movement--all by drawing pictures and stringing them together. This cartooning business is getting really complicated now, isn't it?

But you cannot watch a anime without sound. Well, you could, but if you add music to it, it becomes more interesting. So now the animator needs to know how to draw so it looks like the characters are speaking.

Perhaps there is a song, and the characters decide to execute a little dance. The animator must be sure the movements match the music, which all must be timed precisely, to the smallest fraction of a second.

When you begin to consider all these factors, it's amazing any shows have been made at all! Then there are the other things, like backgrounds, lighting, camera aspects, and so on. You can see why Disney or Pixar have entire studios of men and women, buildings full of artists, who all are a team to create just one computer animated anime.

Now that you know some animation basics, like how shows are made, you can get to work practicing your skills. If you are interested in becoming an animator, you have a lot of learning ahead of you. If not, you will have a better understanding of all the work that is involved in making just one anime.