Unit 31 - P2 How is animation used

Explain the uses of animation

Education

Used to show students how animation works and used to give examples of animations for students who are taking animation as part of their study, animation would be used in study by showing the students how animations are made and what components are in them (for example; each individual frame). Another use of animation in education is during events like a school assembly on a presentation, animation would be used at this time so that the students would keep focused on what is being explained.

Advertisement

Animation is used in advertisements very much in the modern day, advertisements like posters can often seem dull so adding movement to them can make them more appealing to the eye, and an example of an animated advertisement would be a TV advert with cartoon characters like the old Popeye cartoon to get kids eating spinach. Other forms of adverts are the ones used in football fields of recent where a brand will hire one of the screens around the field to show an animation of their product.

Creative arts

Some people see animations as an art form this means that they can use animation to create something that can be displayed in a gallery of sorts. Some people use gifs as a way of showing a professional photo but having movement to it, this gives it a more lifelike feel to the image and attracts a lot more attention that a still image.

Entertainment

Animation is used all over the entertainment industry, most people associate animation with just animated movies like Avatar and toy story but it was used in times long before that is shows like morph and Sinbad. But animation is also used in other forms of entertainment like theatre productions, theatres use projection of animation on some opening curtains to give the audience something to look at before the show starts. Also amusement parks use animation on their rollercoaster simulators along with movement of the rides to create a lifelike rollercoaster ride with a fantasy twist which leads me onto my next point.

Simulation

Simulations are used to create a replica safe environment of real life crisis or simulation for other events like driving or flying planes. For example in the air force use simulations for test driving planes before they actually put pilots in the sky as well as simulating emergency landing situations to test the pilots on their skills in a life or death situation.