Because animation moves about too much

Wednesday 28 February 2024



Is your movement really necessary?

Six frames a minute is plenty, or better yet, six frames an hour.

Stop all that flickering.

Hold still a minute or two, or five, or ten.

Relax, and take it easy.

Related, listen to Tissa David on the importance of holding still. And to start a movement to stop all this movement, sing an old song, but silently, to yourself. And the movement has begun:“I hate two-frame boils,” Odgbee says in her Instagram bio. Yes.

Image from Lady and the Tramp, 1955. All too soon Lady will awaken, and she will recall her responsibilities and anxieties, will realise that she is pregnant, and will see death’s shadow following every life that she loves.