subject: Animation In Business: Flash Animation, Gif Animation, 3d Animations, 2d/3d Graphics [print this page] Animation is one kind of illusion in front of the spectators. Animation can be of many types: flash animation, GIF animation, 3D animations and 2D animations etc. Traditional 2D animations can only move in two directions X and Y axis on the other hand 3D animations has additional axis that is Z axis. Animation is usually a rapid display of a sequence of images of any kind. Mostly it is a video taken by camera. Also there are some other ways to show it as 3D animation is created in computers with special animations software like 3D max. It can be presented by projector or computer. Among others 2D animation, 3D animations and stop animation created from 2D/3D graphics and illustrations.
2D animation is created from two dimensional drawings. They are usually hand drawn picture. Movies like Princess and the Frog, Sesame Street are created by wonderful animator Paul Fierlinger.
3D animations is created by computer and this is the most versatile form of animation. It is also called Computer Generated Images. Film like Toy Story is the most common example of such movie. Because of the accelerate improvement in computer technology 3D animations has become popular. It is not like the old time when 3D animations required big computers which was only available to big companies. 3D animations now gave birth to a million dollar business in the film industry.
Stop Motion animation is live video or element which is captured reliably by camera. We can see this type of animation mostly in movies like big parts of the original Star Wars trilogy.
Flash animation is categorized in 2D animation. It is mostly used for making cartoon or animated film. Using different vendor software you can make flash animation. Some of the softwares are Adobe flash, Toon Boom etc. The advantages of using Flash animation software is that it requires less space, time and expertise. Flash animation is so versatile that it can amalgamate bitmaps and other raster-based art, as well as video. It can also be created from only vector based design. Sometime you can call them Internet cartoons, online cartoons, or webtoons. But web comic cannot referred as flash animation. They are different strip of comic available in different website. There are lots of TV series created from flash animation. For example, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Blues clues, Ollie's Under The Bed Adventures and the latest The Lingo Show (2012).
There are some films created from Flash animation Magos y Gigantes (Mexico), Xuxinha e Guto Contra os Monstros do Espao (Brazil) and the recent one is Top Cat (Mexico).
In 2D graphics there only two axis visible. That is why 2D graphics is always flat as we see in photo. In 3D graphics height, width and breathe is visible. So, it gives 3D graphics a real look. You can draw 2D/3D graphics using some software like AutoCAD. Most of the times 2D/3D graphics show the geometrical data which is useful in engineering jobs.
The term GIF refers Graphics Interchange Format where the image format is Bitmap. When the format came it became popular and enables to create good GIF animation. At that time both the computers and internet was far more than present time. For its inadequate option of color and tools it is mostly use to design logos and some images with solid color. As GIF animation needs less information it is very useful to create images from 2D/3D graphics. It is very much appropriate when you require designing any jagged edge design, little GIF animations and low resolutions film clips. It has image pallet to 256 colors so it is not similar with the format used by digital photographers. GIF animation software starts with a rational screen which means a fixed size graphical area. Most of the times it is fill up with one image. It does not necessitate any encoding, any plug-ins. Only using tag in HTML, with these common terms the animation can be displayed in the network page. GIF animation with GIF image is not suitable for bigger work.
