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ladokar
08-13-2009, 11:17 AM
I'm a flash animator studying classic animation, theoretically I find some trouble to understand the difference between terms (shot on two's, or one's), but practically I can't differentiate between them at all, say that I'm looking at frames drawn on animation papers, how should I say that this is shot on two's or on one's, and also when I want to draw my frames, how should I distinguish between the two types of animation's rate, is it that I can't do this comparison without the help of a camera, or is it possible just by checking the drawings, or what is it?\

Thanks in advanced :)
Mr. D
08-13-2009, 09:19 PM
Hello

Animation runs at a frame rate
film 24 frames per second
video 30 fps NTSC Secam-Pal different rates

so if your doing 1 for film your making 24 individual images per second of film.
if "two's" your exposing two film frames to the same images, so only 12 individual frames for 24 frames of film.

Most higher end are use to use '"two's", cheap animation such as the old transformer cartoons would be using "three's" or 4 individual frames per second of film.

digital animation does a full 24 images per second of film.

comes down to time and cost

2 minutes of film on one's = 2880 cels/pics
2 minutes on two's = 1440 cels

that's a lot of drawings for just 2 minutes.

Mr. D
ladokar
08-15-2009, 04:28 PM
Thanks Mr. D :)

This was helpful ...!
Bonstar
08-19-2009, 07:07 AM
In traditional animation animating on twos can save alot of time, but if you are animating very fast or fluid motion such as running or dancing it is best to animate on ones... That is one image for every frame.

Hope this helps!
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