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Aaron White
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slippery fluidity... defines all good animation..."
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Aaron White
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Okay, that was unneccessarily curt. But while that's a good description of one kind of slick, popular animation, I think it's a procrustian standard.
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lianncoop
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It's "procrustean." |
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Aaron White
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GATSU
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Is it just me, or does each shelf life sound like a blog? Now all Bamboo needs is to post some photos of herself wearing Emo clothes while writing angsty Goth poetry. :lol:
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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Yeah, it's this funny form of writing called an "opinion column." By writing an opinion column, I'm giving you my personal opinion. If it didn't have my personal opinion, it would no longer be an opinion column. See how that kind of works?
Good animation = fluid animation. Choppy animation, though it might be a stylistic thing, under the most *general* terms = bad animation. Fluid = good. Choppy = bad. |
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Aaron White
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I've come off way snide and I didn't mean to, but my online rhetoric skews that way, like a grocery cart that veers to the left. Anyway, I don't think the kind of slippery fluidity one finds in X is like the spastic animation one sees in Ren and Stimpy, or the limited but imaginative work one finds in the best Astro Boy, or the slow-paced early Ranma animation that I found so hypnotic when I discovered Anime.
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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Well, I see your point and I agree with you that not all animation has to be fluid to be good. However, when you think of the term "good animation," one of the first things you think of is "fluid." For example, a series can have slow animation, but as long as it doesn't visibly jerk, then that makes it good animation. My definition of "good" animation is from a merely technical standpoint. Either way, I see and agree with your point, so I'll concede to you.
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