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twenty-four lies per second your brain happily believes are alive
means The technique of making static drawings, models, or computer images appear to move by displaying a rapid sequence of slightly different frames; also, the quality of being lively or full of spirit.
from From Latin animare, "to give breath or life to," built on anima, "breath, soul" — the same root that breathes through animal and animus. It entered English through French as a word for liveliness and spiritedness long before it described moving pictures; only much later did we hand the old Latin act of breathing life into things over to flipbooks, celluloid, and pixels.
- frame rate
- film runs at 24 still images per second
- persistence myth
- motion comes from brain processing, not eye afterimages
- snow white
- first full-length cel feature took three years
- twelve principles
- Disney animators codified the laws of believable motion
- oldest example
- 5,000-year-old Iranian bowl shows a leaping goat
studio ghibli — japanese studio founded 1985, created spirited away and my neighbor totoro
disney animation studios — founded 1937, created snow white, cinderella, the lion king
warner bros looney tunes — started 1930, produced bugs bunny, road runner, daffy duck cartoons
pixar animation studios — founded 1986, created toy story, finding nemo, inside out