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Cel Animation Post-Production for Film Festivals
Hello,
We have been working on a cel animation film project for a while and we are planning to submit our work to film festivals. When I was looking for the festival guidelines, I have noticed that 24 or 30 FPS films are required. We were drawing 16 frames per second. So do we have to add more between frames to reach 24 fps or can we do it in post-production? Do anybody have any idea about this technical issue?
Thank you!
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Hello Dave,
Thank you for your detailed answer. First of all, animation festivals want 23.976, 24, 25 or 30 fps, I think I picked the 24 one because we have been drawing 16fps and I thought 24 is the most suitable one for our film, my mistake 🙂
Yesterday I tried to export 16 fps composition into a 24 fps movie clip and they look the same. I think my concern is both artistic and technical. I am not sure if 16 fps animation would look good on the big screens. We are worried that multiplied in-between frames might look weird on the big screen. Can this kind of export cause problems for the film festival procedures? Should we really draw as many frames as our film requires, or is it OK to do these kinds of hacks? 🙂
Thank you very much Dave!
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A lot of animation is done “on the twos” meaning, for a 24 fps delivery, the animation is done in 12 fps.
It looks just fine at a lower frame rate. We are used to seeing that in hand-drawn cartoons. Video footage would look odd, but cell animation would look normal, if that makes sense.
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