by Nash Lin | Apr 10, 2012 | What is Animation?
What is animation? Animation is derived from moving pictures in the 19 century. In the past, people produce photographs to capture life images, events, beautiful scenes, human portraits and more. However these images are stationary. A sequence of images of an object were captured while it is in motion. When human eyes view these images one after continuously, our eyes perceive these objects in the images as if moving. Animation is hence emerged from moving pictures. With our current technology, we are no longer constrain to creating animation with photographs. Animations can be created by drawing on papers, 2D animation softwares such as Adobe Flash, or 3D animation softwares such as 3D Studio Max or Maya. What is the use of animation? Animation has many visualization purpose which allows excellent visual communication. Viewing an object or person in motion provides more details, behavior or personality about the subject. A typical 2D logo might look flat and still. By animating the logo at a different angle and perspective, the logo would turn out to be more interesting. Objects that are viewed in 3D space contains depth and volume, thus they look more realistic and appealing. Product visualization make use of motions to communicate their ideas. It might be tough to imagine how a machine would operate or transform just by looking at the blueprint. Creating an animation video showing the object's movement would help designers to see exactly how it works. User interface that we see on web browsers or computer games contains many animations too. Taking a simple hyper link button for example, when user move their mouse over...
Nash is a self taught animator, a fanatic gamer and a digital media coach. He has created many types of 2D and 3D animation. You will get to learn effective animation skills and tips with Nash. 
