.. currentmodule:: matplotlib.animation

Animation

.. autosummary::

:toctree: _as_gen

:nosignatures:

FuncAnimation

ArtistAnimation

Animation.save

Writer Classes

.. autosummary::

:toctree: _as_gen

:nosignatures:

AVConvFileWriter

AVConvWriter

FFMpegFileWriter

FFMpegWriter

ImageMagickFileWriter

ImageMagickWriter

Helper Classes

Animation Base Classes

.. autosummary::

:toctree: _as_gen

:nosignatures:

Animation

TimedAnimation

Writer Registry

A module-level registry is provided to map between the name of the

writer and the class to allow a string to be passed to

`Animation.save` instead of a writer instance.

.. autosummary::

:toctree: _as_gen

:nosignatures:

MovieWriterRegistry

Writer Base Classes

To reduce code duplication base classes

.. autosummary::

:toctree: _as_gen

:nosignatures:

MovieWriter

FileMovieWriter

and mixins are provided

.. autosummary::

:toctree: _as_gen

:nosignatures:

AVConvBase

FFMpegBase

ImageMagickBase

See the source code for how to easily implement new `MovieWriter`

classes.

Inheritance Diagrams

.. inheritance-diagram:: matplotlib.animation.FuncAnimation matplotlib.animation.ArtistAnimation

:private-bases:

.. inheritance-diagram:: matplotlib.animation.AVConvFileWriter matplotlib.animation.AVConvWriter matplotlib.animation.FFMpegFileWriter matplotlib.animation.FFMpegWriter matplotlib.animation.ImageMagickFileWriter matplotlib.animation.ImageMagickWriter

:private-bases:

Deprecated

.. autosummary::

:toctree: _as_gen

:nosignatures:

MencoderBase

MencoderFileWriter

MencoderWriter