The rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.

Animation formats accepted are flash, gif, webm and apng.

Not to be confused with:

• interactive - if flash has interactive element, but nothing in it is animated, it should be tagged only as interactive - not animated.
• non-still - a term for any post that is not a static image.
• slideshow - a sequence of still images with definite pause between the frames.

Related tags:

• huge_filesize
• loop
• long_playtime - Means that an animation plays for 30 seconds or longer.
• short_playtime - Means that an animation plays for less than 30 seconds.

Animation styles:

• 2_frame_animation - Animation made with only two frames.
• 2d_animation
• 3d_animation
• cinemagraph
• frame_by_frame
• motion_tweening
• pixel_animation
• subtle_animation - Barely any or very subtle movements that can also be hard to notice at times.
• turntable_(animation)