Reality and Realism

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Verisimilitude

These two words are surprisingly often conflated. Not just by young students, but by professionals as well.

I would like to think about that a little.

Animation is, above all, a job that involves drawing a great many pictures. Twenty-four per second.

In the days of film, early animation drew every single one of those frames. One drawing per frame — each one drawn individually.

Then it was discovered that shooting each drawing for two frames did not greatly alter the movement.