How to Use animation in a Sentence

animation

noun

• The animation for the film took over two years to complete.
• The website has hundreds of animations you can download.
• The studio used computer animation for some of the special effects.
• And the art form of stop-motion animation is so fallible and human.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• The future of animation work in the AI era is beginning to take shape.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
• Danny Elfman's score and the hauntingly stylish animation make this a must-watch.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2024
• Two large vertical screens displayed Bono’s own jittery drawings of people and places, some of which came to life through the magic of animation.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• The beauty of stop-motion animation is in its handmade production, where the artists’ fingers are present on the characters, sets, and backgrounds.
  — Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 28 Nov. 2024
• To complete this display and give a feeling of animation, arrange a rotating color wheel and floodlight the back of translucent curtains or drapes.
  — David M. Swartwout, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
• This isn't the first time Lucasfilm has teamed up with a Japanese animation studio for a fresh set of stories from a galaxy far, far away.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• But Charlie Brown and his friends did make the jump to computer animation in this charming movie, which still is about the struggles of being an average kid.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• That’s a catastrophic result for Disney, which has always been considered the gold standard in animation.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Nov. 2022
• All have played a considerable part in establishing Disney’s hold on global culture, beyond its role as an animation studio.
  — Barry Levitt, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
• Chandra also confirmed a focus on supporting the animation, visual effects and gaming sectors.
  — Udita Jhunjhunwala, Variety, 24 Nov. 2022
• And as the the animation above shows, this tilt causes the Moon's shadow to miss the Earth.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• The animations on the ground glitched when Swift dove into the opening of the stage.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
• The magical, family production includes live dancers with 3-D animation, giant mice, toy soldiers and exotic dances from around the world.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• The bright and friendly animations bring an overall joyful tone to the film.
  — Nikita Eglis, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
• Anime, the Japanese animation art form, has come a long way in the past few decades.
  — Tyler Aquilina, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• But that was how 2013’s The Wind Rises, which was meant to mark the start of the animation master’s retirement, was framed as well.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2023
• The messenger can send notes, photos, images, and animations and the heart on the box spins when there's new content to take in.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• Whereas the first film was a genuinely bold step for animation, Dawn of the Nugget is overcooked.
  — Jack Francis, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2023
• The level of input from the larger creative team is pretty high in the world of animation.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
• To add the animation later, each frame that Schmidt cut was then photocopied as an 8×10 blow-up.
  — Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023
• This is Disney animation at the best of its '90s Golden Age.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• The blend of animation styles—combining the tactility of stop-motion with the whimsy of C.G.I.—manages to capture the moods of both parts of the day.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• The animation is solid and the little ones will indeed relish the loud antics and the pratfalls while older ones in the crowd might well groan about the overuse of puns.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
• But a shift from hand-drawn to computer animation edged Crews out.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• Produced by the pro-life group Live Action, the animation has sparked debate.
  — Kaylin Blue, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• My only real qualm is that the lip sync animations end after just a word or two of each line reading.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024