Persistance of Vision

2D Animation has many differnt forms to come in however they all rely on the persistance of vision which is basically the illusion of movement.

To create the illusion of movement you need at least 24 Frames per second (FPS), the illusion of movement has been used for many years being first discovered accidently by Eadweard Muybridge who took pictures of a horse running at differnt points on the track and when he put the images together it looked just like the horse was galloping.



2D Animation is quite popular on the internet and it is easy to find examples of 2D animation.

It is very easy nowadays to create a 2D Animation as all resources needed are available and you could     use a differnt technique if you cant use some resources needed for another, a simple way of creating an animation would be using Adobe Flash as i have been using it for a few weeks now and it is easy to get the hang of and simple to use, the advantages of this is that you can save any progress you have made and start from where you last saved which is good incase you make a mistake like on a flip book where you have to start again.