Effect of Animation on Concept Formation of Students from Government and Private Schools between the Age Group of 7-11 Year

Animation is the process of creating the continuous motion and shape change illusion by means of rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. Cartoon animation has great impact on children’s mind, because all children love to see cartoon. Cartoon movies which are necessary sources of fun for children also have educational aspects. Innocent display of cartoons which give many subtle messages include various negativities. One of these negativities is related with the characters’ gender. Characters in cartoon movies include females, males, animals and inanimate objects. While male and female characters’ roles are shaped according to existing stereotypical role models in society, animal and inanimate characters have anthropomorphic characteristics like walking on two feet or speaking. Such characters have their places in these movies with their human-like characteristics. Children's judgments of the reality status of television programmes are not based solely on comparing specific program content with their knowledge of the world. They also need to draw on their knowledge of the medium of television. Without the use of both kinds of knowledge, a documentary about an exotic country might seem as fantastic as a science-fiction adventure. Sample Size was 100 girls and boys from private and government school. Sample Area was Lucknow city. Study Period was 2013 ? 2014. This study is conducted with the objective of to assess the effect of animation and videos on concept formation of the school going children between age group of 7-11year. The findings comes, children loves cartoon so they observe there activity and they learn their behavior, they like everything’s that is liked by their favorite cartoon. Boys like action and girls like fairy tales mostly. Most of the private school students act like cartoon rather than government school students.