Python 3.7.5 : The ani script with ascii.

ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. see Wikipedia.
This is a simple script named ani.py created by me to show an animation with ASCII ...

import os, time
os.system('cls')
filenames = ["0.txt","1.txt","2.txt","3.txt"]
frames = []
for name in filenames:
    with open (name, "r", encoding="utf8") as f:
        frames.append(f.readlines())
"""
for frame in frames:
    print("".join(frame))
    time.sleep(1)
    os.system('clear')
"""
for i in range (4):
    os.system('clear')
    for frame in frames:
        print("".join(frame))
        time.sleep(1)
        os.system('clear')

You need four text files with an 8X8 character matrix format: 0.txt , 1.txt , 2.txt and 3.txt.
The content of these files:

$ cat *.txt
        
 ###### 
        
        
        
        
 ###### 
                 
        
 ###### 
        
        
 ###### 
        
                 
        
        
  ####  
  ####  
        
        
                 
        
        
   ##   
   ##   
        
        

The end result is a square that shrinks to 4 characters #.