Animation encompasses a broad range of styles and techniques. All bring the inanimate; a drawing, an object, computer pixels, to life.

• Look for the interesting style characteristics-interesting shapes, patterns, textures, light and shadow, color.
• Look for the pace and movement of the piece.
• Look for interesting animation techniques.
• Look for the variety of genre including surrealism, abstraction, expressionism.
• 10 Animation Styles to consider

To get ideas for your work you can:

• Look at the examples below for inspiration

• Start with a theme like: Diversity Theme, Warhol Electric Chair Theme, You and the Environment, Circle Project, secret project

• Experiment with a visual style like collage, hand drawn flash, Rotoscope

In the past, we used Flash as the main tool to do the work

ActionScript 3 here

Import a video into Flash

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