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Austin may also refer to: |
Geographical locations |
Australia |
Austin, Western Australia |
Canada |
Austin, Manitoba |
Austin, Ontario |
Austin, Quebec |
Austin Island, Nunavut |
France |
Saint-Austin, hamlet at la Neuville-Chant-d'Oisel, Normandy |
Hong Kong |
Austin station (MTR), Kowloon |
United States |
Austin, Arkansas |
Austin, Colorado |
Austin Township, Macon County, Illinois |
Austin, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois |
Austin, Indiana |
Austin, Kentucky |
Austin, Minnesota |
Austin, Missouri |
Austin, Nevada |
Austin, Ohio |
Austin, Oregon |
Austin, Pennsylvania |
Austin, Texas |
Austin County, Texas (note that the city of Austin, Texas is located in Travis County) |
Schools |
Austin College, Sherman, Texas |
University of Texas at Austin, flagship institution of the University of Texas System |
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee |
Religion |
Augustine of Hippo |
An adjective for the Augustinians |
Business |
American Austin Car Company, short-lived American automobile maker |
Austin Automobile Company, short-lived American automobile company |
Austin Motor Company, British car manufacturer |
Austin cookies and crackers, Keebler Company brand |
Entertainment |
"Austin" (song), a single by Blake Shelton |
Austin, a kangaroo Beanie Baby produced by Ty, Inc. |
Austin the kangaroo from the children's television series The Backyardigans |
Other uses |
Austin (building), a building designed by artist Ellsworth Kelly under construction in Austin, Texas |
Austin (given name), a short form of Augustin, or Augustine, including fictional characters |
Austin (surname) |
USS Austin, three ships |
See also |
All pages beginning with Austin |
August (disambiguation) |
Augustin (disambiguation) |
Augustine (disambiguation) |
Austin station (disambiguation) |
Austins (disambiguation) |
Austen (disambiguation) |
Justice Austin (disambiguation) |
Austinburg (disambiguation) Animation is a method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). C... |
An animated cartoon is an animated film, usually a short film aimed at children and featuring an exaggerated visual style. The style takes inspiration from comic strips, often featuring anthropomorphic animals, superheroes, or the adventures of child protagonists. Especially with animals that form a natural predator/pr... |
Commonly, animators achieved the effect by a rapid succession of 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 still uncertain. Analog mechanical animation media that rely on the rapid disp... |
In addition to short films, feature films, television series, animated GIFs, and other media dedicated to the display of moving images, animation is also prevalent in video games, motion graphics, user interfaces, and visual effects. |
The physical movement of image parts through simple mechanics—for instance moving images in magic lantern shows—can also be considered animation. The mechanical manipulation of three-dimensional puppets and objects to emulate living beings has a very long history in automata. Electronic automata were popularized by Dis... |
Etymology |
The word "animation" stems from the Latin "animātiōn", stem of "animātiō", meaning "a bestowing of life". The primary meaning of the English word is "liveliness" and has been in use much longer than the meaning of "moving image medium". |
History |
Before cinematography |
Hundreds of years before the introduction of true animation, people all over the world enjoyed shows with moving figures that were created and manipulated manually in puppetry, automata, shadow play, and the magic lantern. The multi-media phantasmagoria shows that were very popular in European theatres from the late 18... |
In 1833, the stroboscopic disc (better known as the phénakisticope) introduced the principle of modern animation with sequential images that were shown one by one in quick succession to form an optical illusion of motion pictures. Series of sequential images had occasionally been made over thousands of years, but the s... |
Silent era |
When cinematography eventually broke through in 1895 after animated pictures had been known for decades, the wonder of the realistic details in the new medium was seen as its biggest accomplishment. Animation on film was not commercialized until a few years later by manufacturers of optical toys, with chromolithography... |
After earlier experiments by movie pioneers J. Stuart Blackton, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, Segundo de Chomón, and Edwin S. Porter (among others), Blackton's The Haunted Hotel (1907) was the first huge stop motion success, baffling audiences by showing objects that apparently moved by themselves in full photographic detai... |
Émile Cohl's Fantasmagorie (1908) is the oldest known example of what became known as traditional (hand-drawn) animation. Other great artistic and very influential short films were created by Ladislas Starevich with his puppet animations since 1910 and by Winsor McCay with detailed drawn animation in films such as Litt... |
During the 1910s, the production of animated "cartoons" became an industry in the US. Successful producer John Randolph Bray and animator Earl Hurd, patented the cel animation process that dominated the animation industry for the rest of the century. Felix the Cat, who debuted in 1919, became the first animated superst... |
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