chapter 6

images

working methods

 

Images and sound/music are my language, and animation is a beautiful medium to play and experiment with both. At twenty-four frames per second, it demands lots of work, but the results make it well worth doing.

Baerbel Neubauer

three basic principles of animation

Animation is the frame-by-frame control of images in time. The three most fundamental frame-by-frame principles are image change, registration, and timing. An image on the screen can change its size, its shape, or its surface qualities (color, texture, etc.). The illusion of movement is created by changing the relative position (or registration) of a sequence ...

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