Actually animation is defined as a sequence of images that gives the illusion of movement. so anything techincally, that is on film or video is animation. but i think what jcvaldez is getting at is that performance capture is not animation because it does not use the principles of animation laid dow...

man oh man this is a heated forum.... i have to agree with jcvaldez in what he is saying. performance capture is not character animation. as a mattter of fact animators put a lot of work into fixing the capture. he is a little wrong with the topic of rotoscoping. performance capture is a helpful too...