198 Chapter 9 Animation
9.1 The Brave New World of Digital Animation
Animation is the pinnacle of modern multimedia. It incorporates and draws inspiration
from each of the other media. And more than any other medium, animation exploits the
creative and transforming potential of the computer as a “universal machine.”
Computers have dramatically lowered the costs and increased the ease of creating
many different types of animation. Motion graphics, for example, is the art of making
titles, credits, and other graphic objects move across movie and television screens. For
many years only large studios could afford these services. Now individuals and small
groups readily create a wide array of flashing text, spinning logos, and image ...