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Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
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Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition

by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 7m
English
CRC Press
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How Long to Hold?

The general question of how long to hold subdivides into two questions:

  1. How long is it mechanically possible for the object to hold?
  2. How long is it necessary to hold to give the best dramatic effect?

The first question applied to inanimate objects is simply a matter of whether the object is in stable equilibrium.

With a living character, the same point applies. Once he has arrived in a stable, fairly comfortable-looking pose, he can hold it forever. On the other hand he should not hold at all except for comic or other effect, in an off-balance pose. It does not matter how off-balance or awkward an extreme looks, provided it is reached properly and is moved out of fairly quickly. A drawing which works as a hold is really of ...

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