Peter Mark Roget perhaps discovered the reason of why the previous inventions work. He proposes in his published Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects that "the retina holds images for a fraction of a second before being replaced by the following images. [Therefore], if the images succeeded one another quickly enough, the viewer perceives motion even when looking at still images" ("Meep! Meep!" A History of Animation). .
The word animation is driven from the word animate. The word "animate" means having life or full of life and energy. Hence, the word itself describes the ultimate goal in animation: to make the world created by the animator believable to the audience. To make your customized world believable, the materials and characters must interact with the environment and one another. For instance, if it is raining in your world, the streets or roads won't be completely dry. They'll look slick and glossy from the rainwater. As for the characters, they won't be dressed like it is a sunny day. They will have raincoats on, perhaps an umbrella. The road is possibly slippery if it is wet. Hence, the characters should slip a little while they're walking, jogging, running, or jumping. It is the details that are the most effective in your artwork. .
On the other hand, traditional art such as drawing and painting, "is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in," as explained by Amy Lowell. Trung Pham explains this brilliant quote extremely well in his article, The Artist's Perspective: Original Works of Art in the Digital Era. In this article, art is described as "the revealing of the world" in which the world is "the vision or the imagination" (Trung Pham, 1). The materials, such as the paint, must be actively manipulated by the artist in order for his or her "world" to be created.
