VENUS AS A BRO

look at me i'm using the microblogging site to BLOG! i wanna address something ive already talked about, with more elaborate detail. if you are an animator, an animation student, or just have an interest in animation, you know about animatics. animatics are a blueprint of the timing, staging, and composition of an animated production. they got the feeling of the animation, without the frames. here's some for the simpsons movie.

here's one for invader zim

and here's the one for something more recent, PRIMAL. this one is absolutely crazy

just like with character design sheets, loose cels (from back in the day), or color scripts, animatics are production art. they are pieces to a bigger puzzle. they have a larger purpose of heading the final product towards the direction that the producer and the director have planned for the entire piece. and they can be done from compiling either storyboard drawings or layout drawings into a video editing software with audio. THEY ARE NOT A FINAL PRODUCT

which is why i dont understand this trend:

guys...these are ANIMATIONS! extremely low framerate but they are ANIMATIONS! unless suddenly everybody is working on turning every single one of these as a short, which i dont think so. i think using the word "animatic" for these ones underestimates the effort they take, or places ridiculous expectations in every single work made by students beginners amateurs or indies, every single person who happens to not have the budget or time to make a 24fps short, which btw IS NOT MANDATORY. animation is the "illusion of life", is the artistic arrangement of visual 2D space constrained within a timerange, thats the definition. anybody can be an animator, when you are animating. a one-person team will do one-person work, "production value" is like santa claus. it dont really matter. never be afraid of limited animation. ever.

for your inspiration, here's a plymptoon:

and here's an example of GREAT limited animation