Animation : nf (word from latin animation, soul).
The word “animation” has several meanings:
1. Character of what is animated, bright, full de life.
Speak animatedly (heat, flame passion, quick).
Liven up a meeting, amuse, make people laugh (enthusiasm).
Comings and goings in a lieu.
There is a lot of animation in this quartier (activity, movement).
2. Rare: Action to animate, to give the life.
Theology: Union of the soul to the body.
Immediate animation, from the design stage.
3. Methods of running a group that promote the integration and participation of its members in collective life (group dynamics).
The animation of a house of culture, an outdoor center.
4. Movement of drawings or figurines giving the illusion of life.
Animated films: cartoons, films of puppets or plasticine characters.
5. Animated graphic element (drawing, image, pictogram, etc.), generally interactive, and often in 3D.
Quote from the French writer, poet, essayist and actor Michel Thomas, known as Michel Houellebecq (born in 1956): “their website was graphically very innovative, with striking animations”.
6. Satellite animation: animated images of weather phenomena taken by satellite.
Opposites of animation: calm, coldness, rest, torpor.