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animation
  1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
  2. (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
  3. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
  4. The condition of being animate or alive.
  5. (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The story was made into an animation by students of Kingston University.”
      “It was the first sign of animation Patrick had ever seen in the older boy, and he was so caught off guard that he found himself laughing equally as hard.”
      “He commented on the confusing effect of the contrast between the drab outward appearance of things and the obvious animation and happiness of the people.”
animism
  1. A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
  2. A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
  3. (dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Scientists eventually must deal with animism, it's now too important to be left to clerics and barristers.”
      “Many Central Africans still observe the traditional religion of ancestor worship, or animism.”
      “In modern anthropology, fetishism, like animism and totemism, tends to be disfavoured as a universalistic principle.”
animator
  1. One who animates something; one who brings something to life or the appearance of life.
  2. One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The animator extraordinaire brings his trademarked weirdness to feature-length once more with this new release.”
      “The cartoons are the work of Ub Iwerks, a Disney-stable animator who struck out on his own, foundered, and sank.”
      “Frei was introduced to 3-D printing while working as a CG animator in an arts-focused coworking space.”
animutation
  1. (Internet) A form of Web-based computer animation characterized by unpredictable montages of pop culture images set to music.
animatic
  1. An animated storyboard.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Two episodes are presented, in their entirety, in their raw animatic form as well.”
      “At its simplest, an animatic is a storyboard, a hand drawn still image that conveys direction, motion, and narrative through camera movement across it.”
      “There isn't much to be learned from the track except at how surprised he was to see how close the animatic followed the actual scene in the movie.”
animateness
animater
  1. Alternative spelling of animator
animatedness
  1. The quality of being animated.
animist
  1. A believer in animism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The animist beliefs of so many of this Labour Government who talk about the mauri within a mountain or a river are arrant nonsense.”
      “If anything they look like African animist masks that convey the idea of an animal more than its literal shape.”
      “The ancient religion of Hawaii incorporates hundreds of deities as well as magical and animist beliefs.”
animutations
  1. plural of animutation
animations
  1. plural of animation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There are beautiful cinematic cutscenes and the character animations are well done.”
      “These stylishly funky e-mail invites have great graphics, most with sound clips and animations.”
      “In creating his animations, he films the drawings as he adds or erases the images.”
animaters
  1. plural of animater
animatics
  1. plural of animatic
animators
  1. plural of animator
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The film's success enabled him to establish his own studio, which attracted many animators keen to embrace Williams' perfectionist approach.”
      “Not only did Anderson find animators more pleasant company but the genre itself drew him in.”
      “It's a lesson and challenge for young animators, in that he gets the movement and timing so exquisitely right.”
animisms
  1. plural of animism
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Perhaps more than the other animisms, historical materialism is based on a total confusion of the categories of value and knowledge.”
animists
  1. plural of animist
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