What is the general preference for fps?
How do you feel about 8 fps?
Is anyone working at 8 fps?
FPS
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tomfommber
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FPS
Frames Per Second. I thought I understood the basics here but I have just learned that at least some anime is done at 8 fps. This is a real temptation for me but I wonder just how smooth can you be at 8 fps?
What is the general preference for fps?
How do you feel about 8 fps?
Is anyone working at 8 fps?
What is the general preference for fps?
How do you feel about 8 fps?
Is anyone working at 8 fps?
There is no general rule about which image frequency is best for your style of animation. Some japanese stuff gets away with only 4 drawings per second - if you switch off the sound, you see a slide show. Since AS is doing all inbetweens, it is not about saving work but about deciding which style of movement you want (and maybe which requirements your client has, especially for online stuff).
So maybe you have to do everything on 12 fps because the film will be online. Or you can do everything on 24 fps because the film will be, well, a film. Some people already have complained that the look of 24 inbetweens everywhere is much too smooth for their taste, they want the look of animation "on 2's" (see below).
There are some things one should know:
- You can't change your image frequency within a movie file. This is true for film and video as well as for digital movie files and SWF files. (In Flash you can, however, have several movie clips with different speed within one master file, but it's nearly impossible to sync something like that.)
- 16 fps is the minimum image frequency to create the illusion of movement. But for some still unknown reason animation can get away with much fewer.
- Most animation, even at Disney's, is done with 12 drawings per second for normal movements. For fast action they do up to 24 drawings per second, which corresponds to the 24 fps of film.
- This shows that each drawing is photographed on 2 frames of film. Animators call this "animating on 2s". The correspondency would be:
(on film with 24 fps)
1 frame per drawing = 24 fps
2 frames per drawing = 12 fps
3 frames per drawing = 8 fps
4 frames per drawing = 6 fps
6 frames per drawing = 4 fps
- If you set the overall frame rate to 24 fps, you can still use any frequency of drawings you like if you spread that drawing onto the right span of frames. In AS this can be done with relative ease.
So maybe you have to do everything on 12 fps because the film will be online. Or you can do everything on 24 fps because the film will be, well, a film. Some people already have complained that the look of 24 inbetweens everywhere is much too smooth for their taste, they want the look of animation "on 2's" (see below).
There are some things one should know:
- You can't change your image frequency within a movie file. This is true for film and video as well as for digital movie files and SWF files. (In Flash you can, however, have several movie clips with different speed within one master file, but it's nearly impossible to sync something like that.)
- 16 fps is the minimum image frequency to create the illusion of movement. But for some still unknown reason animation can get away with much fewer.
- Most animation, even at Disney's, is done with 12 drawings per second for normal movements. For fast action they do up to 24 drawings per second, which corresponds to the 24 fps of film.
- This shows that each drawing is photographed on 2 frames of film. Animators call this "animating on 2s". The correspondency would be:
(on film with 24 fps)
1 frame per drawing = 24 fps
2 frames per drawing = 12 fps
3 frames per drawing = 8 fps
4 frames per drawing = 6 fps
6 frames per drawing = 4 fps
- If you set the overall frame rate to 24 fps, you can still use any frequency of drawings you like if you spread that drawing onto the right span of frames. In AS this can be done with relative ease.