Basically, animation is the illusion of movement using pictures that are manipulated to show that ‘movement’. Animation comes from the Latin word ‘animare’, which means ‘to give life’. While animation has been well-known since the early 20^th century, there has evidence of animation before the advent of cinema such as the zoetrope (invented in 1866) and the flipbook (invented in 1868 but still prominent today). The oldest earliest example of what is considered animation is a pottery bowl found in the ancient city of Shakr-e Sukhteh, Iran dating from approximately 5200 years ago.

Animation forms: Traditional (cel) animation, stop motion animation and CGI (computer-generated imagery) animation