How to Use animation in a Sentence

animation

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • The bright and friendly animations bring an overall joyful tone to the film.
    — Nikita Eglis, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The future of animation work in the AI era is beginning to take shape.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
  • 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 legs were soon revealed to be an animation, and not yet a working feature.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The level of input from the larger creative team is pretty high in the world of animation.
    — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • This is Disney animation at the best of its '90s Golden Age.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Will Vinton may not be a household name, outside the world of animation junkies.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • 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 animations depict a four-word input that makes the transformer model about four times faster than the RNN.
    — Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 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 violence — the signature feature of the series — is more diverse in animation and feel than in the 2018 game.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Rudolph typically spends this month on televisions across the U.S. in the form of a 75-minute stop-motion animation film.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024

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