What is a cartoon?

Animation is a comprehensive art category and the product of human spiritual liberation in industrial society. It is an artistic expression that integrates painting, comics, movies, digital media, photography, music, literature and many other artistic categories. English animation: animation, cartoon, cartoon, photography. Among them, the more formal word "animation" comes from the Latin root anima, which means soul; The verb animate is to give life, which means to make something alive. Therefore, animation can be interpreted as the creator's arrangement, so that things that are originally lifeless move like life. In the early days, China called animation an art film; Now it is called comics internationally. Animation is a kind of fantasy art, it is easier to express and express people's feelings intuitively, and it can turn what is impossible to see in reality into reality and expand people's imagination and creativity. Broadly speaking, it is to turn some inactive things into moving images through the production and projection of movies. This is animation. The Chinese name of "Animation" should be said to have originated from Japan. Before and after World War II, Japan called a comic work depicted by a line "animation". Animation is to divide the expressions, actions and changes of people and things into many frames, and then shoot them into a series of pictures with a camera, thus creating a continuous visual change picture. Its basic principle, like film and television, is visual principle. Medicine has proved that human beings have the characteristic of "visual persistence", that is, after seeing a painting or an object, people's eyes will not disappear within 1/24 seconds. Using this principle, playing before the next painting disappears will give people a smooth visual change effect. Therefore, movies are shot and played at the speed of 24 frames per second, and televisions are shot and played at the speed of 25 frames per second (PAL system, which is used by China TV) or 30 frames per second (NTSC system). If you shoot and play at less than 24 frames per second, there will be a pause. The way to define animation is not the material used or the way of creation, but whether the work conforms to the essence of animation. Today, animation media has included various forms, but no matter what form, they all have some similarities: their images are recorded one by one in the form of movies, videos or digital information; In addition, the "action" of the image is an illusion created, rather than existing originally.