The easiest way to make a live animation in Matplotlib is to use one of the Animation classes. .. seealso:: - :ref:`animations` .. inheritance-diagram:: matplotlib.animation.FuncAnimation ...

Summary: matplotlib 1.5 only saving 1 frame of animation, 1.4.3 saves all frames I have code that reads like this (link to full code below): anim = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, bar_animate, frames= ...