Animation and Emotion

Animation

Animation noun - The quality or state of having abundant or intense activity.

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Emotion and animation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Emotion" instead a noun "Animation".

Nearby Words: animate, animated, animal, animating, animator

Emotion noun - A subjective response to a person, thing, or situation.

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Animation and emotion are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Animation" instead a noun "Emotion".

good	good animation	good emotion
full	full animation	full emotion
similar	similar animation	similar emotion
normal	normal animation	normal emotion
Other adjectives: specific, short, proper, single, actual, great, little, new, different.

Praise has gone to the stellar animation, high-quaility music, and packing in so much action and emotion into a single video that it heavily averts It's Short, so It Sucks.

Source: Just For Fun / Daring Do
Whether it is animation or live action, animators and actors go to great lengths to make their characters expressive and emotionally believable; otherwise, the character will have to verbalize emotion.

Source: I Do Not Speak Nonverbal
Bakemonogatari in general contains countless examples of this trope, thanks to the frequency of "black" and "red scenes," sudden blank frames inserted into the animation which occur when the protagonist blinks or is experiencing considerable emotion.

Source: Freeze Frame Bonus / Anime and Manga

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