Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. This could be anything from a flip book to a motion picture film. Simple animation usual comes in gif formats like this one. This one was created out of my own photos. Made into thumbnails and created to change every second and stop after the third round.
Flash is a vector graphic and animation program. Flash poses the ability to be browser independent. The benefit of Flash is that files are small and practical for low-speed modem connections and yet look like real-time video. It is created using Adobe Flash animation software and often distributed in the .swf file format. It can be created in Flash or with other programs capable of writing .swf files. The term Flash animation not only refers to the file format but to a certain kind of movement and visual style which, in many circles, is seen as simplistic or unpolished. Although Flash is able to integrate bitmaps and other raster-based art, as well as video, most Flash films are created using only vector-based drawings which often result in a somewhat clean graphic appearance. The one below is a simple flash ad for my webpage.
