Limited Animation
リミテッド・アニメーション / 1940s– / Technique / Animation Styles
Deliberately reduces the number of drawings, using held frames, repeats and partial movement as style. UPA established it as an aesthetic; television and Japanese commercial animation grew it into grammars of their own.
Few in-betweens / Held frames put to work / Partial animation / Stylized movement
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't read 'fewer drawings' as corner-cutting. See the design that turned constraint into style.
- Further study
- UPA's production system / Hanna-Barbera's TV grammar / Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy