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'''Animation''' is a [[Media|medium]] that takes movinga series of pictures with very slight difference from one to another, and plays them in rapid succession, giving you the illusion of a moving picture. This is what [[Television]] and [[Film]] do too, but when we talk about them here at [[{{SITENAME}}]], we generally mean works that are mostly created images rather than captured images. Even this definition becomes fuzzy, with [[CGI]] scenes and [[Post Processing Video Effects]], but it mostly falls into categories including hand-drawn cels, computer-drawn stories (mostly non-interactive, elseotherwise they'd be [[Video Games|computer games]]), [[Stop Motion]] with clay or such, [[Pixilation]] with live actors, or some mixture thereof.

On this site we tend to group animation by its region of origin. Japanese animation is called [[Anime]], along with that from other Western Pacific Rim cultures. We have [[Eastern Animation]] from the old Soviet Bloc. And [[Western Animation]] represents much of the rest of the world, including Europe, Australia, and the Americas.