Newer techniques
Efforts to lessen the extraordinary labour and costs
of animation have taken two basic directions:
simplification and computerization. Inexpensive cartoons
made for television have often resorted to "limited
animation," in which each drawing is repeated
anywhere from two to five times. The resultant movements
are jerky, rather than smoothly gradated. Often only
part of the body is animated, and the background and the
remaining parts of the figure do not change at all.
Another shortcut is "cycling," whereby only a
limited number of phases of body movement are drawn and
then repeated to create more complicated movements such
as walking or talking.
Although computers can be used to create the limited
animation described above, they can also be used in
virtually every step of sophisticated animation.
Computers have been used, for example, to automate the
movement of the rostrum camera or to supply the
in-between drawings for full animation. If a
three-dimensional figure is translated into computer
terms (i.e., digitized), the computer can
move or rotate the object convincingly through space.
Hence, computer animation can demonstrate highly
complex movements for medical or other scientific
researchers. Animators who work with computers usually
distinguish between computer-assisted animation,
which uses computers to facilitate some stages of the
laborious production process, and computer-generated
animation, which creates imagery through mathematical or
computer language rather than through photography
or drawing. Finally, computers may be used to modify or
enhance a drawing that has been initiated in the
traditional manner.
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