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ANIMATION

Animation and comic books are generally seen as a childish commodity because of the early years of animation being comical gags and children's entertainment. The domination of Disney over the Golden years of animation helped create the ideals of animation being something for kids and superficial enjoyment. Films such as Waltz with Bashir (2008), Persepolis and Grave of the fireflies has shown, animation can be dramatic and hard hitting rather than just the cuddly, 'soft' animation that people in the West generally expect.

Cel animation

This form of animtaion is deemed the 'traditional' style of producing animation and is what was used for the all of the early and some of the more recent Disney films. Now that Pixar and Dreamworks developed computer animation and disney has got on board with it, cel animation is rarely seen in any feature length films apart from the very popular Japanese Anime.

Computer Program

Adobe Flash Player is the most commonly used program amongst animators, Waltz with Bashir (2008) was created using a combination of Flash, Cel and 3D animation to produce the final outcome.

Stop Motion

This process can be extremely time consuming and is usually done in teams to make sure that the work is done in time. The standard is 12 frames per second for an animation piece not to seem too static or jolty.