What does animated mean?

Definitions for animated
ˈæn əˌmeɪ tɪdan·i·mat·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. animated, aliveadjective

    having life or vigor or spirit

    "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"

  2. animatedadjective

    made to appear to move as living creatures do

    "an animated cartoon"; "animated puppets"

Wiktionary

  1. animatedadjective

    Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. Typically used in an animated discussion.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Animatedparticipial adj.

    Lively; vigorous.

    Etymology: from animate.

    Warriours she fires with animated sounds;
    Pours balm into the bleeding lover’s wounds. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. animated

    Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). Computer animation can be very detailed 3D animation, while 2D computer animation (which may have the look of traditional animation) can be used for stylistic reasons, low bandwidth, or faster real-time renderings. Other common animation methods apply a stop motion technique to two- and three-dimensional objects like paper cutouts, puppets, or clay figures. A cartoon is an animated film, usually a short film, featuring an exaggerated visual style. The style takes inspiration from comic strips, often featuring anthropomorphic animals, superheroes, or the adventures of human protagonists. Especially with animals that form a natural predator/prey relationship (e.g. cats and mice, coyotes and birds), the action often centers on violent pratfalls such as falls, collisions, and explosions that would be lethal in real life. The illusion of animation—as in motion pictures in general—has traditionally been attributed to the persistence of vision and later to the phi phenomenon and/or beta movement, but the exact neurological causes are still uncertain. The illusion of motion caused by a rapid succession of images that minimally differ from each other, with unnoticeable interruptions, is a stroboscopic effect. While animators traditionally used to draw each part of the movements and changes of figures on transparent cels that could be moved over a separate background, computer animation is usually based on programming paths between key frames to maneuver digitally created figures throughout a digitally created environment. Analog mechanical animation media that rely on the rapid display of sequential images include the phénakisticope, zoetrope, flip book, praxinoscope, and film. Television and video are popular electronic animation media that originally were analog and now operate digitally. For display on computers, technology such as the animated GIF and Flash animation were developed. In addition to short films, feature films, television series, animated GIFs, and other media dedicated to the display of moving images, animation is also prevalent in video games, motion graphics, user interfaces, and visual effects. The physical movement of image parts through simple mechanics—for instance moving images in magic lantern shows—can also be considered animation. The mechanical manipulation of three-dimensional puppets and objects to emulate living beings has a very long history in automata. Electronic automata were popularized by Disney as animatronics.

ChatGPT

  1. animated

    Animated refers to something that has been brought to life or endowed with movement, often through techniques such as drawing, clay modeling, computer graphics, etc., primarily within the context of film or video production. It can also refer to someone or something being lively, energetic, or filled with activity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Animated

    of Animate

  2. Animatedadjective

    endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous

Anagrams for animated »

  1. aminated

  2. diamante

  3. diamanté

  4. mandaite

  5. mantidae

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of animated in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of animated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of animated in a Sentence

  1. Ted Sarandos:

    It is hard to sit here with 24 Academy Award nominations across feature films, animated films, documentary films, short documentary films, and say there is any bias against streaming, we are really thrilled that the academy recognized the quality of the work just for quality of the work.

  2. Clara Njeru:

    When I was young, there was almost no animated content that was relatable to me, we know now there's a big advantage for children to see themselves represented.

  3. Jorge Garcia-Bengochea:

    Children have been through very traumatic situations and they've shut down. Just being around the animal, they get animated, they start talking and they actually sometimes tell the horse things that they haven't told other people.

  4. Creator Mike Spalla:

    Well Jingle Cats was such a big hit when it first came out in 1993. It was an album of real cats singing 20 Christmas songs and it was nine cats, this year ... it's going to be a Jingle Cats movie completely done in 'claymation' and it's turning out pretty funny ... the music is really an animation and so with animated characters it works very well.

  5. Paul Ryan:

    I think the Democratic base was already there, this definitely -- I could just see it from traveling around the country in the last few days, traveling around Wisconsin -- the House Republican base is definitely animated after this.

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