Today, the standard is - because we have computers and animation that’s digital - 29.9 frames per second, which is commonly known as "30 FPS." That gives you a smoother look. They would capture it on 35-millimeter film and then run that film at 24 frames per second. How many frames per second did the really early 2-D animations run with? That’s why movie animation is so much smoother and more fluid than, say, the Saturday-morning cartoon. That lowers the cost but also lowers quality of animation. Each screen is on the frame a few times to make up the 24 frames per second. TV usually uses "animating on twos" and they animate at 12 frames per second. Disney started with 24 frames per second – they started with 24 frames of individual drawings per second. Isn’t that a lot of work to get that many frames in a second? That’s how you go from 2-D still image to a 2-D. The eye basically sees those frames move so fast that it interprets it as motion. An animator will draw individual images in a series, and then those images are strung together and run at 24 frames per second. Yeah, so it works the same way film works. Have a question you want answered? Send an email to and we’ll find an expert who can give you the answer you’re craving. With Infrequently Asked Questions, we set out to answer those shared curiosities.
It's kind of mind-boggling when you think about it. How do 2-D drawings, functionally, get turned into the animations we're all familiar with - cartoons, anime, etc. We reached out to Stephen Wood, professor of animation and game arts at Moore College of Art & Design, for an explainer. Animated films and television shows can seem like magic, in how they manage to bring life - or, more specifically, motion - to 2-D art.
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