Inanimate

How does inanimate become animate? How does animate become inanimate? Simple. Take a bunch of people (animators), make them draw an unfathomable amount of inanimate pictures (frames) in order to create animation, and in the process, watch them slowly become inanimate themselves as the enormous workload sucks all lifeforce out of them. Sounds pretty dramatic, huh? Über dramatic. Animation isn't like that at all, except when the deadline is approaching. I've been helping out a friend of mine who's working on an animation project, a music video, to be exact. It's fun in the beginning, but when you paint 100 or more frames of the same scene it gets a bit tiresome. And this is just a small animation project.. I take my hat off to all animators. Keep on animating. U rock.

animate VERB 1. to give life to or cause to come alive. 2. to make lively; enliven. 3.to encourage or inspire. 4. to impart motion to; move to action or work. 5. to record on film or videotape so as to give movement to: an animated cartoon. *ADJECTIVE 6. being alive or having life.7. gay, spirited, or lively.

inanimate ADJECTIVE 1. lacking the qualities or features of living beings; not animate: inanimate objects.2. lacking any sign of life or consciousness; appearing dead.3. lacking vitality; spiritless; dull.