| A | B |
| Persistence of Vision | Eyes retain images for a split second |
| Frame by Frame Animation | What appears to be continuous motion is a series of many different frames |
| Computer Assisted Animation | Hand or computer drawn images, put into keyframes and tweened images between keyframes |
| Computer Generated Animation | 3-D images created using modeling and rendering |
| Path Animation | Also called vector animation |
| Path Animation | Object follows a line or path |
| Morphing Animation | One image is gradually turned into another |
| Programming/Script-based Animation | Created by using languages such as Javascript |
| Rollovers | Mouseovers: when the mouse is moved over an image, it changes to a different image |
| Stop Motion Animation | Process of manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame at a time. |