Animation
![The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these six frames.This animation moves at 10 frames per second.](/Images/godic/202412/21/Animexample3edit5729.png")
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![A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893)](/Images/godic/202412/21/Phenakistoscope_3g07690u5730.jpg")
![A projecting praxinoscope, 1882, here shown superimposing an animated figure on a separately projected background scene](/Images/godic/202412/21/Lanature1882_praxinoscope_projection_reynaud5730.png")
Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and change by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. The illusion—as in motion pictures in general—is thought to rely on the phi phenomenon. Animators are artists who specialize in the creation of animation.