What is the difference between animation and cartoon?
animation | cartoon |
The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
* 1647 , , Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members'', as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), ''The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. , Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808),
* by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.
(animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
The condition of being animate or alive.
* Landor
(linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
* 1992 , Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean , page 291:
(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
(arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.
(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
A diagram in a scientific concept.
As nouns the difference between animation and cartoon
is that animation is the act of animating, or giving life or spirit while cartoon is a humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.As a verb cartoon is
to draw a cartoon.animation
English
(wikipedia animation)Noun
(en noun)page 217:
- He recited the story with great animation .
- Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation .
- "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."
Synonyms
* (the act of breathing life into something ) vitalization, vivification, enlivenment * (the state of being lively ) airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity * (the condition of being alive ) lifeDerived terms
(Animation) * deanimation * disanimation * reanimation * suspended animationDescendants
* Japanese: ) (borrowed)Anagrams
* English words suffixed with -tion ----cartoon
English
(wikipedia cartoon)Noun
(en noun)- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon , lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.