animate
Make it move
Animate means to bring to life or give motion to something.
In film and digital media, to animate is to create the illusion of movement through a sequence of images: She spent months animating the short film by hand.
As an adjective, animate describes things that are alive or living, as opposed to inanimate objects.
The word extends to any act of enlivening or making spirited: His arrival animated the whole party.
To fill with energy
- revitalizeRestore strength and vitality
- energizeSupply with vitality
- vivifyMake more alive
- quickenTo accelerate or animate
enliven · brighten · spark · awaken · stimulate · rejuvenate · refresh · galvanize
Transparent sheet for cartoons
- frameSupporting outer structure
- storyboardPlanned visual sequence drawings
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- sketchHasty informal drawing
draw · voiceover · episode · series · studio · Disney · Pixar · Nickelodeon
Having current existence
- livingCurrently having breath
- sentientAble to perceive, experience
- organicFrom living matter
- creatureLiving, sentient entity
being · organism · life · breathing · conscious · vital · lively · spirited
Change location or act
- movementChange in position
- kineticRelating to motion
- locomotionAbility to travel independently
- gestureCommunicative body movement
articulate · propel · glide · walk cycle · rigging · puppet · pose · sequence
Operate a vehicle
- encourageUrge forward with support
- spurIncentive or heel device
- impelDrive to act
- promptIncite to action
urge · rouse · stir · incite · provoke · compel · push · empower
Tiny fiery particle
- creativityCapacity for original thought
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- museThink deeply about
- ideaMental formation
vision · insight · epiphany · brainstorm · breakthrough · ingenuity · inventiveness · originality
invigorate
To fill with energy
- revitalizeRestore strength and vitality
- energizeSupply with vitality
- vivifyMake more alive
quicken · enliven · brighten · spark · awaken · stimulate · rejuvenate · refresh · galvanize · pep
cel
Transparent sheet for cartoons
- frameSupporting outer structure
- storyboardPlanned visual sequence drawings
- characterNature, symbol, or role
sketch · draw · voiceover · episode · series · studio · Disney · Pixar · Nickelodeon · DreamWorks
alive
Having current existence
creature · being · organism · life · breathing · conscious · vital · lively · spirited · vibrant
move
Change location or act
- movementChange in position
- kineticRelating to motion
- locomotionAbility to travel independently
gesture · articulate · propel · glide · walk cycle · rigging · puppet · pose · sequence · transition
drive
Operate a vehicle
prompt · urge · rouse · stir · incite · provoke · compel · push · empower · influence
spark
Tiny fiery particle
- creativityCapacity for original thought
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- museThink deeply about
idea · vision · insight · epiphany · brainstorm · breakthrough · ingenuity · inventiveness · originality · genius
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- art verbsdraw, paint, sketch, sculpt, carve
- encouragementencourage, encouraging, praises, hang in there, supports
- spellsspell, cast, conjure, curse, enchantment
- states of beingalive, dead, living, existing, conscious
- come aliveawaken, stir, arise, revive, enliven
- stuffed animalsSoft sewn toy creatures
- wild animalUndomesticated creature
- farm animalsDomesticated agricultural creatures
- baby animalsImmature offspring of fauna
- animal shelterFacility housing homeless pets
- Animal CrossingLife simulation franchise
animal, animals, animated, animation, animating, inanimate, animator, animates, animators