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Traditional animation is much harder than today's style of animation.^[1] It often uses a stop-motion camera to "liven", or animate, the photos made by the producer.^[2] When movie-makers use stop-motion, they need to draw one picture for every scene. However, there are tools to help save time with movie-making. Other types of animation, such as limited or digital animation, can also be used now. FPS is the number of times a movie is shot in one second.

The photographer first shoots out or edits many photos. These photos are combined to make the storyline.^[3] And as with all movies, not all scenes make it into the final movie.^[4]

Many people^[5] help out in the editing of a movie. But in old times, people had to draw the scenes on their own.^[6] Then the stop-motion camera took a photo of a scene once a second.^[7][8]

Most movies or cartoons in the 1950's required very hard work of the editors.^[9] To make things cheaper, though, people made limited animation^[10] that used two to three copies of the same image^[11] (so the stop-motion process would be two to three times faster.^[12])

Right now movie-makers use digital animation^[13] to "liven the movie even more".^[14] Movies from the 2000 to 2010 years are usually 1–2 hours long.^[15]

FPS, or frames per second, is the number of scenes being shot in one second.^[16] The higher this is, the more "smooth"^[17] the film looks.^[18][19] Most movies have an FPS of 24 to 60.^[20]

Cels, or celluloids, are tools used to "preserve" scenes.^[21] An editor uses a cell to draw a scene then make changes to it on the next drawing.^[22] It is useful when a cartoon or movie involves moving figures or objects.

Sometimes a sketch pad is used to draft the scenes the editors think would be good in the movie. A sketchpad at first may contain a comic book that looks like an animation when the editors flip it back and forth.^[23]

Often editors preview the animation with a video shower. On the stream of scenes, movie-makers test their animation and fix bugs or problems.^[24]

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