Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
Responsibility of the Director
The director is responsible for decisions regarding the overall pacing and planning of the whole story or a particular sequence of it.
This can involve sequences of several minutes’ duration or of only a few seconds. He must also decide how these sequences should be organized into scenes.
How long should each scene be? What should be the pace of the action in the scene? What should be the pace of the action in order to hold the interest of the audience? How can ideas in the story best be put over to the audience? These are the problems the director must solve. Today’s directors must evaluate and coordinate work from artists living in far-flung areas, sending their completed scenes in via computer networking. Going ...
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