Rapidly showing a sequence of drawings that creates an illusion of movement

An instrument when it spins you get the illusion of movement

The Horse in Motion (1879) - Simple loops just like the Zoetrope

He invented the kinetoscope where you can film live action then play back.

It is one of the oldest forms of animation in film and it is also sometimes called Cel Animation

Creating movements in two dimensional space, illusion of movement is created when individual drawings are sequenced together over time, animation is done every two frames

The most common type of animation, animators use a program to make the character's body parts move around

3 Main sectors of 3D Animation:

Pieces of digital graphics that create the illusion of motion

Captured one frame at a time, with physical objects that are moved between frames