Animations (cartoons) can be made with drawings or by coding. Some animations work by using lots of drawings. To animate a frog jumping you can draw lots of pictures of the frog. When you move from drawing to drawing really quickly your eye will think the frog is jumping! You can also use computer coding to make an animation. When you use coding, you don’t have to draw lots of pictures to make something move. Instead you can use words like 'move', 'turn', 'speed' and 'scroll' and the computer fills in the missing pictures.

Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2017. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 22, 2018.

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