/ani/ - Animation

>>501
>Is it the number of frames?

more frames basically means more drawings which should translate to smoother motion. however we have to take into consideration the action itself. compare for instance the way characters run in Pucca to the way characters run in the Looney Toons and that to the way characters run in Ghibli films. you could add 8 billion frames into pucca running and ghibli key-frames alone will look more fluid simply because the animation itself has more actions.

>The way you arrange them(The perfect timing and techniques)?

not so sure what you are asking here.

>The action in itself?

not necessarily since the same action can be done in a lot of different ways, some will look good and some bad.

i would say is a combination of everything but lets not forget that animation is basically moving pictures. if your drawing looks bad and isnt consistent the illusion of movement is broken and the animation looks bad.

also did you mean animation as a whole or the one on the gif you posted?

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>What makes animation so lively and good looking?
I think it's because the animation is so fluent with it's looping actions is what makes it feel smooth. The primary appeal is the combined fluent action with lots of secondary action following the primary guitar action. The hair whip grabs the attention of the viewer then her 'primary action' is her playing the guitar which is followed through with the bouncing feet and the flowing jacket.
TL;DR It's multiple actions flowing within the animation and it perfectly loops within 4 seconds.

>Is it the number of frames?
There are exactly 88 frames within 4 seconds. So the animation is being played by 1's at approximately 22-24 frames per seconds, so that's what makes Rainbow Dash so smooth.

>The way you arrange them (The perfect timing and techniques)?
What makes this animation so unique is that it's nearly impossible to breakdown if you're a beginner at animation. There are so many secondary actions going on that the general audience wouldn't know how to break this down without professional assistance. It's so complicated to break down but so beautiful to see, it's almost as if you're actually seeing someone play their Optimus Prime electric guitar so fluently and organically.

>The action in itself?
Like I said, there are so many actions going on but you know that it's just the main action of Rainbow Dash playing her Optimus Prime guitar.

>What?
It doesn't just appeal to the MLP and Transformers fandoms, it also appeals to the general audience because it's so well made- practically anyone with a pair of working eyes can enjoy this.