How animators create realism by exaggerating movement

[AndreaJames]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/how-animators-create-realism-b.html

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[Brainspore]

@AndreaJames

Roger Rabbit bucked animation trends and pushed for a more exaggerated style of movement.

I should hope so; Roger Rabbit was a very conscious effort to imitate animation styles of the past, including very deliberate homages to animators like Chuck Jones and Tex Avery.

[nungesser]

There’s not much to view yet, but his current project is being animated as realistically as possible –

[Verbal]

[Jorpho]

There has been much hilarity found in freeze-framing Disney films. Another thing largely lost in CG.

[incarnedine_v]

It’s not really a technique that’s common in the industry. In fact it’s a technique that nearly bankrupted the it’s pioneer on several occasions.

[Logolepsy]

I can’t believe that an animated GIF taken from a perfectly looped animation wasn’t properly looped. Disappointing.

[lava]

I remember watching that animation of A Christmas Carol when I was a kid and being blown away by the drawings. If you like animation that is well worth finding and watching.

[AndreaJames]

giphy which i use only allows clipping by 1/10th of a second, not by frame. other suggestions welcome.

[Logolepsy]

Hi Andrea. The animation has a perfect loop of exactly 1 second. You can start anywhere after the dachshund is in its place (and at least one second before the title appears). So, even if Giphy only allows clipping by 1/10th of a second, it works perfectly for this particular loop. See my settings below, I set the duration to 1.0 seconds, starting at 00:07.

The resulting GIF is here, it is a perfect loop: