Animation
Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model, and then photographing the result. When the frames are strung together and the resulting film is viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames per second, there is an illusion of continuous movement (due to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the process.
Here Alice has assembled all the very best of this craft; scroll below alphabetically or search using the sub-categories in green on the left. 'Family Animation', 'Classic Animation', 'Cult Animation' or 'JapanAnime'.
Right: Nick Park's endearing Wallace and Gromit.
The Muppet Movie (1979)
7.6/10
Director: James Frawley
Starring: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear
Kermit the Frog thinks he has got what it takes to be a big star in Hollywood, so he leaves the swamp and heads West. Along the way he meets Miss Pigg... Read more
The Last Unicorn (1982)
7.5/10
Director: Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass
Starring: Voices Of, Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Le...
An animated fantasy, based on the novel by Peter S Beagle, about the last unicorn in the world who leaves her home in the lilac woods on a quest to di... Read more
Fantasia (1940)
7.8/10
Director: Hamilton Luske, James Algar, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Bill Roberts, Ford Beebe
Starring: Mickey Mouse
Walt Disney's eight-part marriage of music and animated images remains an amazing achievement. 'Fantasia' was first conceived as a feature-length vehi... Read more
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
6.9/10
Director: Brian Henson
Starring: Tim Curry, Kermit the Frog, Billy Connolly
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about loyalty and pirate loot becomes an entertaining mix of adventure, music and muppet madness in this romp s... Read more
Death Note: Volume 1 (2006)
9/10
Light Yagami is an ace student who is bored out of his mind until he finds the Death Note - a notebook that will kill any person whose name is written... Read more
Tinker Bell (2008)
6.9/10
Director: Bradley Raymond
Starring: Voices Of, Mae Whitman, Kristin Chenoweth, Lucy Liu, America Ferrera, Jane Horro...
Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fair... Read more
Ice Age (2002)
7.5/10
Director: Chris Wedge
Starring: Voice Of, Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
The coolest computer animated comedy to come along in over 50,000 years, this prehistoric spin on "Three Godfathers" follows a trio of mismatched mamm... Read more
Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)
7.8/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Brian Cox, George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl S...
The visually ravishing animated movie 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' follows a fox (George Clooney) as he cheerfully and recklessly takes his thieving too fa... Read more
Neon Genesis Evangelion 0:6 (1997)
Director: Hideaki Anno
Starring: Animation
Episodes 18-20. The first test of the new Eva turns into a disaster as the giant bio-humanoid goes insane and proceeds to run amok! When the combined... Read more
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
6/10
Director: John A Davis
Starring: Voices Of, Mary Hart, Martin Short, Patrick Stewart
The spiral-haired scientific whiz kid and Nickelodeon TV star blasts off in his first feature-length animated adventure. When he inadvertantly contact... Read more