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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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
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The animations on the ground glitched when Swift dove into the opening of the stage.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
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The animation allowed birds to fly, clouds to float by, plants to sway in the breeze and boats to rock on the water.
—Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 11 July 2022
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Fans will get to see the reason for the decision with a short 3D animation shown on TV and the big screens.
—Steve Price, Forbes, 1 July 2022
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In one of the two images in the animation, look for the bluish tones speckled with darker blue melt ponds.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
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The bright and friendly animations bring an overall joyful tone to the film.
—Nikita Eglis, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
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But, at the same time, there are now so many animation tools available.
—Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022
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How has the animation of the show changed since the original series?
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
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The future of animation work in the AI era is beginning to take shape.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
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Anime, the Japanese animation art form, has come a long way in the past few decades.
—Tyler Aquilina, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
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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
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The legs were soon revealed to be an animation, and not yet a working feature.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
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For the first time in more than 30 years — and only for six weeks — Fox will not lead off its Sunday animation block with The Simpsons.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
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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
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Whereas the first film was a genuinely bold step for animation, Dawn of the Nugget is overcooked.
—Jack Francis, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2023
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The level of input from the larger creative team is pretty high in the world of animation.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
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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
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This is Disney animation at the best of its '90s Golden Age.
—Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
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The blend of animation styles—combining the tactility of stop-motion with the whimsy of C.G.I.—manages to capture the moods of both parts of the day.
—The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
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Its centerpiece is an animation of the dead king’s journey to the afterlife, as imagined from the text known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
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The animation is solid and the little ones will indeed relish the loud antics and the pratfalls while older ones in the crowd might well groan about the overuse of puns.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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Will Vinton may not be a household name, outside the world of animation junkies.
—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
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But a shift from hand-drawn to computer animation edged Crews out.
—Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
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Produced by the pro-life group Live Action, the animation has sparked debate.
—Kaylin Blue, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
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My animations depict a four-word input that makes the transformer model about four times faster than the RNN.
—Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
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Jumping on the animation bandwagon, TikTok user Roger G questioned the purpose of the new film in the franchise's lineup.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
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Watch this animation below for an overview of the procedure.
—New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2025
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