About Basic Animation - Animation adds visual impact to your multimedia projects and web pages. Many multimedia applications for both Macintosh and Windows provide animation tool,but you shood first understand the principles of how the eye interprets the change it sees as motion. In a word Animation is actually the process of putting something into action,creating and displaying a series of still images(freams) that appear to have motion or dimension or both. You can define animaion as - an illusion of movement create by sequentially playing image frames in an adequate framerate.