character animation
Cartoon figures moving
Character animation is the art of bringing figures to life through sequential movement—making drawn, modeled, or digital characters appear to think, feel, and act.
The discipline encompasses everything from hand-drawn cel animation to 3D computer graphics, focusing on conveying personality and emotion through motion: The character animation in that film made you forget you were watching pixels.
Distinguished from effects animation, which handles non-character elements like fire or water.
- feature filmsStandard-length theatrical movies
- BlenderFree 3D graphics software
- arcsCurved line segments
- follow throughComplete an intended action
- video gamesInteractive electronic entertainment
anticipation · appeal · staging · tweening · ease in · exaggeration · television shows · rigging · Unity · timing · Houdini · mobile apps · lip sync · walk cycle · advertising campaigns · acting · facial expressions · frame-by-frame
- animationanimators, cartoon, cartoons, toons, Mickey Mouse
- 3D software3D modeling, rendering, modeling, meshes, Houdini
- 3D graphicsray tracing, shaders, textures, vertices, rendering
- motion capturemocap, motion capture, facial capture, markers, marker
character animationdocumentary footage
Recorded non-fiction visual material
practical effects · live-action · live action · cinematography · found footage
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