When the two disks rotated at the correct speed, the synchronization of the windows and the images created an animated effect.

The color changes are beautiful and the stripes are sometimes highlighted in ways that have an animated optical effect.

The producer begins by designing a particular animated effect, like the robot, on a computer and stores it as a series of instructions.

But they're dramatized so declaratively with these animated effects that audiences have little choice but to accept them.

The game has background music and, on many levels, some animated effects, though neither normally has an effect on game play.

How do you achieve that surreal, animated effect?

Academy rules specify that 75 percent of a film must use animated effects for it to qualify for the animation category.

"For instance, all of the members in one gang a year ago had an animated twinkly effect in their left eye."

There are many interesting cellular automata rules, and they all look very different, with amazing animated dynamic effects.

Both features used a combination of animated special effects and live action.