Talk:Outline of animation

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Brief explanation of Wikipedia outlines

Outlines on Wikipedia are a type of list article. Each outline is about the subject identified after "Outline of" in the title. "Outline" refers to the format of the article...

"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). In Wikipedia outlines, the hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets.

Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure). They also serve as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 12:48, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Animation techniques

Some notes on the changes that I made in this section of the page:

• The term "traditional animation" is not helpful for understanding how this technique fits into the topical hierarchy of the subject, so I've listed it under the more descriptive, alternative name of the technique, "cel animation".
• Stop motion animation was listed as a subcategory of 3D animation, but this is not correct. Rather, 3D animation is a subcategory of computer animation, which is completely distinct from stop motion.
• Computer animation, the most important category of animation today, was missing and has been added with a hierarchy of subcategories.
  • For most subcategories of computer animation, I've provided a brief description of the category. This would not be necessary if there were Wikipedia articles that I could link to for those descriptions. But since no such articles exist, it seemed to be helpful to readers to provide the descriptions here so they can know what the categories mean. If someone later develops articles that provide that information, these descriptions could be replaced with links to those articles.
  • Software examples: My listings of software examples is partially redundant with the other section, "Computer Animation Software". I'm not familiar with most of the software listed in that section. I will study them and figure out where they belong in the hierarchy in this section. After that, I might suggest removing that section as redundant with this one.
  • Software links: For software without Wikipedia articles about them, I've provided external links to the relevant pages. In addition to giving readers sources of information on the software, this would help someone who wants to creates pages covering the software.

Ennex2 (talk) 07:44, 20 October 2023 (UTC)