The word Animation has some magnetic power. Starting from a child of hardly three years to a mature man – all fall in love with the mesmerizing effect of animation. Animation is nothing but the display of a 3-D or 2-D images on the screen and that too done in a serial order. It had been said that the invention of animation film is a much earlier invention than the feature films. People always love to get entertainment in any way and in any form.

From the Victorian Age the experiments were carried on the animation. In those times these were the most popular form of entertainment. Belgian Joseph Plateau, William George Horner, Reynaud tried to make out different method to provide entertainment to the common masses. J. Stuart Black ton presented the first film based on animation–Humorous Phases of Funny Faces 1906. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906 got huge success in New York.

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Animation is a rapid display of sequence of various images and it is more like an optical illusion of motion of some sorts. It is feasible to use film making funda’s in animation as it leads to an entire animated movie on the lines of a commercial film.

The first funda to be incorporated would be to write a script for the movie and then to decide on the characters to be used in the movie. The script would involve the story line to be used extensively to be the characters to life. Film making fundas always serve as a input for making good animated movies. Even a smallest form of animation i.e. the flip book that was used initially for animation had to be incorporated with a storyline.

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