Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
Timing for Broadcast Media
This includes television, streaming, and web-based content. Because television production requires large amounts of screen time, and much web-based content is created on a small scale with very frugal budgets, the animation has to be planned out very carefully, with economy in mind. This approach is generally known as limited animation. With limited animation, as many repeats as possible are used within the 24 frames per second. A hold is also lengthened to reduce the number of drawings. As a rule, not more than six drawings are produced for one second of animation. The show content could be designed to emphasize dialogue scenes over physical action (Fig. 1). Creating libraries of mouths and eyes through your digital ...
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