How to Use animation in a Sentence
animation
noun- The animation for the film took over two years to complete.
- The website has hundreds of animations you can download.
- The studio used computer animation for some of the special effects.
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The visuals are amazing, the mechanics are easy to learn, and the animations and details are just perfect.
— David Pierce, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2024 -
Foakes is an experienced VFX and animation exec of over 15 years.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024 -
Most of the time, the Zeta Gundam just gets completely redesigned, so to have it this faithful to the original styling from the animation is just amazing.
— Ollie Barder, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024 -
Most senior projects in his field lean toward animation and drawing, but Hrusovsky veered away from that and will integrate virtual reality into his thesis.
— Joe Noga, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023 -
And as the the animation above shows, this tilt causes the Moon's shadow to miss the Earth.
— Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023 -
The animations on the ground glitched when Swift dove into the opening of the stage.
— Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024 -
Picture a virtual universe with dazzling animation and characters.
— Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2023 -
The bright and friendly animations bring an overall joyful tone to the film.
— Nikita Eglis, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023 -
Anime, the Japanese animation art form, has come a long way in the past few decades.
— Tyler Aquilina, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024 -
But that was how 2013’s The Wind Rises, which was meant to mark the start of the animation master’s retirement, was framed as well.
— Rachel Handler, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2023 -
The messenger can send notes, photos, images, and animations and the heart on the box spins when there's new content to take in.
— Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 22 Mar. 2023 -
Whereas the first film was a genuinely bold step for animation, Dawn of the Nugget is overcooked.
— Jack Francis, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2023 -
To add the animation later, each frame that Schmidt cut was then photocopied as an 8×10 blow-up.
— Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023 -
But a shift from hand-drawn to computer animation edged Crews out.
— Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023 -
Produced by the pro-life group Live Action, the animation has sparked debate.
— Kaylin Blue, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024 -
My only real qualm is that the lip sync animations end after just a word or two of each line reading.
— Kris Holt, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 -
The trailer does not give much away on the depth the film actually contains behind the animation and jokes.
— Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024 -
Now a short can be a live-action pilot, the first episode of a web series and/or use a filter to turn into an animation, etc.
— Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023 -
The sun-bursting-from-horizon animation is reminiscent of 2021’s Dune, from the font to the color scheme.
— Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 1 May 2023 -
Here’s an animation of a Titan’s hand reaching out from under the Fortnite map, part of the event launching the season.
— Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024 -
The effort to unionize animation’s east coast writers has been discussed for over a decade.
— Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023 -
Roth is also spearheading the show, which is still in its early stages, keeping the same animation style.
— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023 -
All the musical and animation stops are pulled out for a series of show-stopping numbers.
— Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 -
As a work of animation, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman can’t plumb behavioral depths and tics in quite the same way.
— Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023 -
Disney’s animation studios, once its bread-and-butter, churned out the costly flops ‘Lightyear’ and ‘Strange World‘.
— Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023 -
Skydance launched its own animation studio in 2017 and is led by ex-Pixar chief John Lasseter.
— Tim Baysinger, Axios, 15 July 2024 -
Hopefully the transition from animation to live-action doesn't cause the film to lose its voice.
— Brendan Morrow, The Week, 1 May 2023
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