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Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology This image shows how two transparent cels, each with a different character drawn on them, and an opaque background are photographed together to form the composite image. Traditional animation Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images (or frames as they are called) to create an illusion of movement. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods. This type of presentation is usually accomplished with a camera and a projector or a computer viewing screen which can rapidly cycle through images in a sequence. Animation can be made with either hand rendered art, computer-generated imagery, or three-dimensional objects, e.g. puppets or clay figures, or a combination of techniques. The position of each object in any particular image relates to the position of that object in the previous and following images so that the objects each appear to fluidly move independently of one another. The viewing device displays these images in rapid succession, usually 24, 25, or 30 frames per second. More about animation... "Homer's Enemy" is the 23rd episode of the eighth season of American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 4, 1997. The plot of the episode centers on the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's hiring of a new employee named Frank Grimes. Homer attempts to befriend Grimes; however, Grimes takes an instant dislike to Homer, angered by his laziness and incompetence, and eventually declares himself Homer's enemy. The episode was directed by Jim Reardon and the script was written by John Swartzwelder, based on an idea pitched by executive producer Bill Oakley. The episode explores the comic possibilities of a realistic character with a strong work ethic placed alongside Homer in a work environment. The show's staff worked hard to perfect the character of Frank Grimes. He was partially modeled after Michael Douglas as he appeared in the film Falling Down. Hank Azaria provided the voice of Frank Grimes, and based some of the character's mannerisms on actor William H. Macy (pictured). "Homer's Enemy" is considered to be one of the darkest episodes of The Simpsons and is a favorite of several members of the production staff. Although Grimes makes his only appearance in this episode, he was later named one of the "Top 25 Simpsons Peripheral characters" by IGN. Stop motion (also known as stop action) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Parent projects Arts • Film • Entertainment • Visual arts Main project Animation Sub-projects American animation • Avatar: The Last Airbender • Disney • Futurama • G.I. Joe • My Little Pony • Nickelodeon • South Park • The Simpsons • Transformers Related Projects Anime and manga • Biography • Comics • Fictional characters • Media franchises • Music • Television • Video games What are WikiProjects? Steve Jobs (1955-2011) was an American business magnate and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and former chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 film Toy Story as an executive producer. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011. Pete Docter won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The accolades received by Up, a 2009 computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film, which premiered on May 29, 2009, in North America, became the first animated 3D film to open the Cannes Film Festival. It was directed by Pete Docter (pictured), co-directed by Bob Peterson, and produced by Jonas Rivera. It garnered various awards and nominations, most of them for the "Best Animated Picture" category and for the film's soundtrack. Up was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 2010 Ceremony, winning two, for Best Animated Feature and for Best Original Score. Rivera received the Motion Pictures Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award, for Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures, given by the Producers Guild of America, while Docter, Peterson and Giacchino were honored with British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards for their work on the film. Furthermore the film was nominated at the 2009 Satellite Awards in the categories "Best Animated or Mixed Media Film", "Best Original Screenplay" and "Best Original Score". ...that the National Cartoon Museum wandered between four homes before its acquisition by Ohio State University? ...that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry? ...that five of the video games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game are adaptations of animated films? Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the first Warner Bros. theatrical animated short and the first of the Looney Tunes series Films released 1928 – Eskimotive (United States) 1930 – Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the very first Warner Bros. theatrical animated short (pictured) and the first of the Looney Tunes series is released. 1941 – Porky's Preview (United States) 1946 – Service with a Guile (United States) 1952 – Water, Water Every Hare (United States) 1954 – The Lone Chipmunks (United States) Television series and specials 1987 – Matt Groening's The Simpsons debuts as a series of short animated segments on The Tracey Ullman Show. 1997 – The Angry Beavers, an American animated television series begins airing on Nickelodeon Animation (Book) Animation topics Industry: Animator (List of animators) · Animation director · Animation studios · Animation film festivals (international / regional) Works: Feature-length films · Short films · Television series · Films based on animated cartoons · Computer-animated films · Stop-motion films Techniques: Traditional animation · Limited animation · Rotoscoping · Stop Motion · Clay (strata-cut) · Cutout (silhouette) · Graphic · Model (go motion) · Object · Pixilation · Puppetoon · Computer animation · Flash animation · PowerPoint animation · SVG animation · Cel-shaded animation · Crowd simulation · Morph target animation · Motion capture · Non-photorealistic rendering · Skeletal animation Other methods: Drawn-on-film · Flip book · Inbetweening · Paint-on-glass · Pinscreen · Pixel art · Sand animation Topics: Cartoon series · Cartoon physics · Animated cartoon · Character animation · Independent animation · Adult animation · List of animated shorts available on DVD History: Azerbaijan · Canada · China · France · Iran · Japan · Russia · United Kingdom · United States By country: China · Japan · Korea · United States · India · Malaysia · Philippines · Vietnam Template:/box-footer Featured articles 2 Featured lists 2 Featured topics 2 Featured portals 2 Featured pictures 2 70x70px 70x70px 70x70px 70x70px Computer-generated imagery Disney Ed, Edd n Eddy Family Guy Futurama Nickelodeon Muppets The Simpsons South Park SpongeBob SquarePants 70x70px 70x70px Anime and Manga Arts Books Cartoon Comics Computer graphics Fictional characters Film Furry Horror fiction 70x70px 70x70px 70x70px Literature Music Photography Poetry Radio Speculative fiction Superhero fiction Television Video games Visual arts Animation on Wikinews News Animation on Wikiquote Quotes Animation on Commons Images Animation on Wikisource Texts Animation on Wikibooks Books What are portals? 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