animation cycles: An animation cycle is a sequence of images that loop back from the last image in the sequence to the first image to produce the effect of a continuous movement. An animation cycle can be repeated multiple times to produce longer animations with fewer unique images. This technique is one of the keystones of limited animation.

This is a six image cycle of a fish swimming. The six images can be viewed on 2's to produce a 12 frame cycle. Image 6 blends back into image 1 to provide a continuous swimming motion.








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