一 Animation & its Characteristics Animation comes from the Latin word anim （生命）are which means to give life to . This is what our animators do . They create（创造 创作） characters（人物角色） and bring them to life . Whether（不论） a spoon ,a dog or a person ,all characters take on human mannerisms（特殊习惯） .In the English language animation is mostly associated with the work of filmmakers .Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually ,whether generated as a computer graphic , or by photographing a drawn image ,or by repeatedly making small changes to a model ,and then photographing the result。When the frame are strang together and resulting film is viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames per second , there is an illusion of continuos movement .Generating such a film is very labour intensive and tedious though the development of computer animation has greatly speed up the process. Now people believe animation is good for : Illustrating process Describing things not possible in real world Summarizing complex real-world events 二 Animation history The history of animation that most people are familier with is the Disney version . you can clearly see that to this point, there were many people and studios that came before Disney .But , the influence of the Disney animated films should not be understand Disney designed a character called Mortimer Mouse .He later changed the name to Mickey. They produced two silent films with Mickey ,but it was their third that was actually released first . The third film was “ Steamboat Willie” , which not only made Micky a star , but also was the very first sound cartoon. The Golden Age of...
