Howl's Moving Castle
Belleville Rendevous
Beauty and the Beast
Also called Cel or 2D animation. Made by using a series of drawings (frames) which are transferred to sheets called Cels then played at a rate of 25/24 frames per second to create an illusion of movement.
Stop Motion:
Stop motion is made by manipulating real world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time so that when played back it will create the illusion of movement. There are several types of stop motion animation usually named after the object that is manipulated.
Clay Animation (also known as Claymation)
Wallace and Gromit
Puppet Animation
Corpse Bride
Cutout Animation
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Model Animation
Jason and the Argonauts
Go Motion
Go motion is a type of model animation that uses various techniques and effects to create the illusion of motion blur. It was used by Industrial Light and Magic in the Star Wars movies and in films like Jurassic Park.
Star Wars
Computer Animation
Using similar ideas and techniques to traditional animation but using computers to generate the objects and the movement.
2 Dimensional
Like it's traditional counterpart except that the images are computer generated and not hand drawn per frame. Computer techniques such as tweening (using the computer to fill in movement) and onion skinning (being able to see previous frames while drawing) can make this process a lot quicker than doing it by hand.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
3 Dimensional
Much the same as stop motion but using computer programs to fill in the information for you instead of having to create every single frame.
Toy Story
Early forms of Animation
Zoetrope
A Zoetrope is a cylindrical device that creates the illusion of movement through rapid display of a series of images by rotating. The earliest Zoetrope dates back to around 180 AD in China, the version seen above that most people are aware of was developed in 1834 by a British mathematician.
Flip Books
Flip books are a very rudimentary version of traditional animation, instead of frames of film playing back to create movement the pages being turned quickly, each with a static image on, create the illusion of movement.
