How Animation Works

How animation works

People can make animations with the computer or they can hand draw the animations they want to use in a film. They also can use programmes on the computer to make these animations. They work by a lot of different images being put together to produce an animation film this is called a stimulation of movement process throughout the different stages of making animation.

Illusion of movement

Animations is an illusion of movement, this is where still images are used and when you look at it, it makes you see the image moving. There are two different names for illusion of movement these are called persistence of vision and beta movement. Persistence of vision is where we see the image in a total different way than it actually is on the computer. The image looks different because the light is reflected on the image that makes our eyes see the image in a different way and makes it look like it is moving. Beta movement is where the image we think is actually moving in the fixed image but it actually isn’t, this is called an illusion. Beta movement was first found by Max Wertheimer this was in year 1912. Since then a lot of other people have discovered Beta movement and describes it to be your eyes forming a different way of looking at the image by it standing still to your eyes seeing the image moving.

Frame rates

The people who create the films, movies have put some pieces in their work that the images are actually still. This is to make illusion of movement in the movies they also have been known to be called Frame rates in the years. They have a lot of different Frame rates per seconds, for example: 12, 24, 25, 30 and many more. All the different frame rates have specific use to use these types of frame rates when producing animations. These frame rates are showing how many frames have been placed in the movie per seconds for the different images that are in the films and the animations. When editing films you can change the frame rate to make them speed up or speed down to make the animations look better for their overall film.  It is important that you use the correct frame rate as it depends what you are doing on the animations.

In animation people uses 12 frame rate per second. Every time they make a film they use 12 images per second so this makes the images look like they're moving this is called illusion of movement.  In film people will use 24 images per second for the movies. This is 24 frame rate per second. Television uses different frame rate per second rather than animation and films, they use 25 frame rate per seconds. So they will get 25 pictures per second they will use this will make it look like all the images are moving when they're actually still picture.

Suspension of disbelief

For animation they have suspension of belief this is where people watch animations and believe what they are seeing on the film. As it makes the person believe what has happened when in fact the images are still and in their eyes it looks like it is moving this is called illusion of movement.