Animated movement has its own peculiarities, which differentiates itself from real movement. Being animation and performing arts two kinds of artistic expressions that are based on the creation of a work from the movement, we wonder whether the differences between these two kinds of movement propitiate that animated movement is not really a movement as such. This hypothesis is given by peculiarities in the creation of animated movement, as it could be that this would be created from static images or the necessity of being reproduced in audiovisual format. Thus, we analyze characteristics of movement in performing arts and animation through ideas about movement and time of certain thinkers to reach a conclusion on the question proposed.