JONIMATION

Observe, Observe, Observe  Animation! This is the vehicle you have chosen to express yourself in. A whole list of "tools" are required: drawing, timing, phrasing, action, acting, pantomime, staging, imagination, observation, interpretation, logic, caricature, creativity, clarity, empathy, and so on—a mind boggling array of prerequisites. Rest at ease. You were born with all of them. Some of them may need a little sharpening, others may need to be awakened as from a deep sleep, but they are as much a part of you as arms, legs, eyes, kidneys, hemoglobin, and speech. Reading and observing are two emancipators of the dormant areas of the mind. Read the classics, biographies, humor, mysteries and comic books. Observe, observe, observe. Be like a sponge—suck up everything you can lay your eyes on. Look for the unusual, the common, characters, situations, compositions, attitudes study shapes, features, personalities, activities, details, etc. Draw ideas, not things; action,

Animation  is a dynamic medium in which images or objects are manipulated to appear as moving images. In  traditional animation  the images were drawn (or painted) by hand on cells to be photographed and exhibited on  film . Nowadays most animations are made with  computer-generated imagery  (CGI).  Computer animation  can be very detailed  3D animation , while  2D computer animation  can be used for stylistic reasons, low bandwidth or faster real-time renderings. Other common animation methods apply a  stop motion  technique to two and three-dimensional objects like  paper cutouts ,  puppets  or  clay figures . The stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject is known as  pixilation . Commonly the effect of animation is achieved by a rapid succession of sequential images that minimally differ from each other. The illusion—as in motion pictures in general—is thought to rely on the  phi phenomenon  and  beta movement , but the exact causes are