Although commonly used to mean “move a figure across the screen,” the word animate is used in motion-picture editing and compositing to mean “change an attribute through time.” In this sense, making a clip move from one corner of the screen to another over a few seconds animates its position, while changing it from sharp to blurry over a few seconds animates its sharpness, and changing it from a shade of pink to a shade of blue over a few seconds may animate its color balance. Here, animation means “change through time,” not “moving object.”