The first chapter deals with a historical background and development of the animation up to the golden age of making animated movies in the 1930-ies. It is given an overview of different techniques of creating animation, some of which are still used today. The second chapter gives an overview of the basic principles of animation, the classical one and the computer animation. It explains the concepts such as pace, key positions, the basic approaches of making an animation, and was given a more detailed view of the human pace. The third chapter presents the program Blender in which was made the practical part of master thesis. It is given the explanation of some of the main features of the program such as textures, lighting scenes, modeling and transforming objects, rigging, basic methods of animation and rendering. In the fourth chapter it is described the course of making the animation which starts with the formation of the story and making of a storyboard. Then comes character modeling and placing of the bones (rigging) and the the animation. The last step is the postproduction.