Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Genre families · Specialist

Animation

Also called: animated work

ELI5

Moving-image storytelling created through drawn, modelled, stop-motion or computer-generated frame construction instead of only live-action capture.

Used in conversation

“The deck names the animation; now the character and scene choices need to support it.”

Definition

Moving-image storytelling created through drawn, modelled, stop-motion or computer-generated frame construction rather than only live-action capture.

Here “Animation” means: Moving-image storytelling created through drawn, modelled, stop-motion or computer-generated frame construction rather than only live-action capture. Other meanings are stored as separate sense entries and must be chosen explicitly.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Animation” in character, world, genre & tone conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Helps describe who the project follows, where it lives and what kind of experience it promises.

Connected terms

  • AnimationAnimation can name the kind of finished work, or the craft process used to create movement frame by frame.
Sources & evidence · 4

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.