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computer animation

[ kuhm-pyoo-ter an-uh-mey-shuhn ]

noun

, Digital Technology, Graphic Arts.
  1. animation, or a product of animation, created using computer hardware and software.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of computer animation1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences

Then, twelve human subjects watched 196 video clips of these robots interacting, which were in essence a series of computer animations.

Rogen and Goldberg brought their particular brand of raunchy hard-R humor to the typically kid-friendly realm of computer animation in 2016.

Lemberg and his colleagues used computer animation to confirm that Tiktaalik’s joints would have enabled it to move its skull bones in similar ways to an alligator gar.

In 1986, programmer Craig Reynolds made a three-dimensional flocking algorithm, which played out in an early computer animation.

Of course, one is a documentary (albeit filled with slick computer animation), the other a narrative film.

It is, chiefly because the cost of computer animation has come down so much.

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