What's the difference between animation and movies?

Traditionally, animation is a kind of film. Distinguish from the following aspects:

1, definition: movie, real movie in a narrow sense. It is an image transformed on the basis of reality. In contrast, comics are made out of nothing, directly turning imaginary things into images.

2. Direction: The specialty of real movies is reality, and the specialty of comics is fantasy.

3. Cost: If a real movie wants to be as fantastic as animation, and animation wants to be as real as a real movie, it will cost a considerable amount of extra money, especially in the past. From an economic point of view, it is natural to use real movies and animation technology to make movies with different themes.

4. Concept: People's different understanding of animation and real movies comes from the long-standing habits and impressions left by different themes.

Extended data:

The definition of "animation" is clear, but the word "movie" has many explanations. Some people think that what is actually filmed is a film, which is a technical classification, so animation and film are two different things;

2. Some people think that cinemas show movies, which is a commercial classification, so some animations are also movies.

For ordinary people in Chinese mainland, "movie" may refer to a real feature film that lasts more than 90 minutes. But when it comes to the difference between "animation" and "film", China has a traditional authoritative classification.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-animation Baidu encyclopedia-movies