Moving image genre-form guide online, January 17, 2008 (Computer animation: type of animation in which the visuals are composed predominantly of computer-generated imagery. Used for CGI)

Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988: p. 37 (Computer animation: use for animation achieved by photographing in stop-motion the illumination of a cathode ray tube in accordance with signals fed to the CRT by a computer)

Wikipedia website, January 17, 2008 (A computer-animated film commonly refers to feature films that have been computer-animated to appear three dimensional on a movie screen. While traditional 2D animated films are now done primarily with the help of computers, the technique to render realistic 3D computer graphics (CG), or 3D Computer-generated imagery (CGI), is unique to using computers to create movies. Movies that are entirely computer-animated, and rendered in 3D...are sometimes referred to as CG films)

Lopez, D. Films by genre, 1993: p. 14 (computer animated films)