The concept of animation is different from that of general comics. Animation is a comprehensive art, and it is an artistic expression that integrates painting, comics, movies, digital media, photography, music, literature and many other artistic categories. /kloc-originated in Britain in the first half of the 9th century and flourished in the United States. China animation originated in the 1920s. Animation is a young art and the only art with an exact date of birth. 1892, 10 year128 October, emile reynaud showed an optical film to the audience for the first time, which marked the official birth of animation, and emile reynaud was also called "the father of animation". [1] After more than 100 years' development, animation art has a relatively perfect theoretical system and industrial system, and is deeply loved by people with its unique artistic charm.

There are many expressions about animation in English, such as animation, cartoon, animated cartoon and cameracature. Among them, the more formal word "Animation" comes from the Latin root anima, which means "soul", and the verb animate means "to give life", which means to make something alive. Therefore, animation can be defined as the art of creating life movement with painting.

The more standard definition of animation technology is the image technology that takes pictures of objects frame by frame and plays them continuously to form actions. No matter what the subject matter is, as long as it is shot frame by frame, continuous playing to form a moving image is animation.

Animation classification:

According to the process technology, it is divided into: plane hand-drawn animation, three-dimensional shooting animation, virtual generation animation and real-life animation;

According to the media, it is divided into: cinema animation, TV animation, advertising animation and science and education animation;

According to the nature of animation, it can be divided into commercial animation and experimental animation.

Animation principle:

Animation is to decompose the expressions, movements and changes of characters into many frames of action moments, and then shoot them into a series of pictures with a camera, which will cause continuous changes to the vision. Its basic principle, like film and television, is the principle of visual persistence. Medicine has proved that human beings have the characteristic of "visual persistence". After seeing a painting or an object, people's eyes will not disappear within 0.34 seconds. Using this principle, playing before the next painting disappears will give people a smooth visual change effect.