Introduction

 

Animation is a compeling and extraordinarily adaptable form of audio-visual expression that is highly effective in fusing moving images and sounds together to tell stories and explain ideas. The medium allows exponents to explore theories and inform audiences, and its flexibility as an artificially constructed form means that it is well suited to a vast range of communication applications. From obvious examples such as movies, television series, and advertising commercials, through developing uses such as websites, mobile applications, and gaming, to more diverse applications in the fields of medicine, engineering, and architecture, animation proves that it is a medium that has the ability to entertain, inform, educate, and ...

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