What is Meant By?

What is meant by animated movies?

Animated movies are movies that use computer graphics to 'animate' characters and scenes. Animate means to 'bring to life' or 'make move'. It is similar to cartoons but not quite. While for cartoons, artists just draw still pictures on page after page with slight alterations, in order to make the characters movie, in animated movies it is the computer graphics experts who are used for applying the animation process, instead of using sheets of paper.

Artists still draw and outline the entire script of the animation movies, but it is the graphics designers who piece it together. Computer animation is a much more advanced process than the simple 'cartoon' days, and it helps create better graphics, smoother animation, and overall better quality motion pictures.