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• v  heighten or intensify
• v  give lifelike qualities to
  animated cartoons
• v  make lively
• v  give new life or energy to
• a  having life or vigor or spirit
  an animated and expressive face
  animated conversation
  became very animated when he heard the good news
• s  made to appear to move as living creatures do
  an animated cartoon
  animated puppets

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• Two very different animated features stake their own ground at Cannes.

• inspire
• animate
• invigorate
• enliven
• exalt
• animize
• animise
• liven
• liven up
• recreate
• reanimate
• revive
• renovate
• repair
• quicken
• vivify
• revivify
• alive

• deaden
• unanimated

News & Articles

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• Make animated GIFs from videos with GifCam
  When Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion ... was it because of the GIFs ? In our media-saturated Internet landscape, the 5-second animated GIF may be the most essential entertainment currency. If a picture can paint a thousand words, the animated GIF can tell 10,000 stories in 10 frames or less. (Isn't Vine (for Android or iOS ) mostly just video-based animated GIFs?) Newbies who want to dip ...
  June 12, 2013 - CNET
• Nickelodeon Launches Global Animated Shorts Program
  London/Annecy, France – Nickelodeon announced that it has launched its first ever global animated shorts program to identify and develop new animation creative talent from around the world, and it has received over 100 submissions from artists, designers, writers, directors and comedians representing more than 20 countries across six continents (Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia ...
  June 12, 2013 - Animation World Network
• Here’s a GIF of Nicki Minaj’s Animated Cartoon Penis
  Ciara released an animated lyrics video for Nicki Minaj collaboration and song-of-the-summer candidate "I'm Out" today. Among its many wonders: an animated cartoon penis. The image appears when Nicki boasts, "I got a big fat ass, big dicks follow." When it comes to boasting, "big dicks follow" turns out to ... More »
  June 12, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Elena Kagan in The Associated Press
  ...National Right to Life Committee, another anti-abortion rights group, on Wednesday wrote to senators urging them to vote against Kagan, saying that she was "first and foremost a social engineer, animated primarily by a desire to shape...
• Lamar Odom in ESPN
  What's crazy about it is that it's giving these teams like a quiet confidence where they think they can beat us and they start talking and carrying on and getting extra animated, even when they come here,Odom said, with dried blood caked...
• Jerry Seinfeld in Forbes
  I think I'm bringing a different humorous sensibility to an animated movie,Seinfeld, who also is writing and producing the movie, told Newsweek magazine. "There's a lot of attitude in the jokes, the same way it was on the show."