Animation
Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model, and then photographing the result. When the frames are strung together and the resulting film is viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames per second, there is an illusion of continuous movement (due to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the process.
Here Alice has assembled all the very best of this craft; scroll below alphabetically or search using the sub-categories in green on the left. 'Family Animation', 'Classic Animation', 'Cult Animation' or 'JapanAnime'.
Right: Nick Park's endearing Wallace and Gromit.
South Park: Season 1 (1997)
8.7/10
Director: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Starring: Stan, Kenny, Kyle, Eric Cartman
All thirteen classic Season One episodes. Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural, the extraordinary... Read more
South Park: Season 2 (1998)
6.6/10
Director: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Starring: Stan, Kenny, Kyle, Eric Cartman
All eighteen classic episodes from "South Park's" legendary second season. This season we find out the identity of Cartman's father, learn about Conjo... Read more
South Park: Season 3 (1999)
7.8/10
Director: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Starring: Stan, Kenny, Kyle, Eric Cartman
All seventeen classic episodes from 'South Park's' legendary third season. In this season we learn what causes spontaneous combustion, get caught up i... Read more
South Park: Season 4 (2000)
8.3/10
'Special' people in wheelchairs! Contorting Quintuplets! And the making of a Boy Band! See the boys discover all-new four-letter words in the all-new... Read more
South Park: Season 5 (2001)
8.7/10
Director: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and the about-to-be permanently departed Kenny as they take on the supernatural, the extraordinary and the insane. Season Fiv... Read more
Space Chimps (2008)
4.5/10
Director: Kirk De Micco
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Cheryl Hines,...
Fun computer-animated sci-fi tale focuses on Ham III (voiced by Andy Samberg) - the grandson of the first chimpanzee ever sent into space - who gets c... Read more
Space Dogs: Adventure To The Moon (2014)
3.8/10
Starring: Alicia Silverstone
Get ready to blast off to an out-of-this-world adventure with canine teenage astronaut, Pushok, who is determined to find his missing astronaut father... Read more
Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume 1 (1994)
8/10
Director: etc , Matt Banker
Starring: Weird Al Yankovic, Judy Tenuta, Timothy Leary, Bob Denver, Adam West, Carol Chan...
The original Adult Swim series is a spoof of late night talk shows, with clapped-out superhero, Space Ghost, in the David Letterman role. In outer sp... Read more
Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume 2 (1995)
8/10
Starring: Matt Groening, Janeane Garofalo, James Hetfield, Dave Grohl
The original Adult Swim series continues with more absurd comedy genius in Volume 2, as the guests get wise and Space Ghost's questioning technique be... Read more
Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume 3 (1997)
7.9/10
Starring: Janeane Garofalo, James Hetfield, Matt Groening, Dave Grohl
Watch Space Ghost's definitive interviews with real celebrities whose expressions reveal everything from awkward puzzlement to an obvious hangover. Br... Read more