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.
  • The films range from animation to live action and span different genres.
    Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • This development follows recent advances in deep learning for real-time avatar animation from video and voice.
    David Baszucki, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Sattar creates the animations behind Roan for her shows, helps select her single covers and plays a hand in the star’s makeup and outfits.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
  • There's also newness coming from Disney's beloved animation studio, Pixar, that is sure to pull at our heartstrings.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 26 Dec. 2022
  • That was one of my earliest memories of digital cinema and animation.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Congratulations – and thank you! – to all of the filmmakers for an extraordinary year in animation.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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