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Cartoons and animation

Cartoons : A cartoon was originally a tough drawing done to prepare for a painting. Today the word indicates to a drawing, or a series of drawings, with a message. Cartoons can tell a joke or a very long story. They can be hilarious or serious. They can appear on printed page or in TV or a movie screen as animation which they call "moving pictures". Cartoons actually began in the 1700s, when printed books and pictures became available and cheap. Artists such as the Englishman James Gillray and the Frenchman Honore Daumier used their skills to assault politicians. Cartoons became popular in European papers and magazines. The first famous American cartoonist was Thomas Nast who assaulted political depravity in Harpers Weekly magazine. In the 1900s one-panel cartoons (cartoons with a one picture) were very communal in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, but progressively comic strips took their place. Now the only magazine in the United States that still has large numbers of the one-panel cartoons is The New Yorker.

Animation : Cartoons that are filmed to give the imagination of movement are called animation.There are three main types of animation: flat pictures, three-dimensional models, and computer-generated animation. Rudimentary animation existed before the movies. Devices called magic lanterns included simple drawings that appeared to move when the machine was rotated. The thought behind two-dimensional animation is the same. Each drawing is photographed individually. There are very small differences between the drawings so that when the bodies are run together at speed, they appear to be moving. Some animation is drawn directly onto paper which after that they photograph it, but most cartoons of this type are now created on diaphanous sheets called cels.