researching animation: animation itself

Animation is a rapid display of a number of images of a 2D or 3D format, this could be artwork or rigged models; positioned in a order to create the vision of movement.

The causes a optical illusion to the human eye by how fast each image is being shown due to the frame rate whether this is 10 fps or 24 fps. Obviously 24 fps is more of a believable and smoother because more images are being shown in each second.

   Examples of early animation are set to be approximately 4000 years ago to the egyptians; images of 2 wrestlers fighting, even thought its not being shown as a sequence it still identifies the movement in a superimposed format.