Limited Animation

Limited animation is a form of animation that is usually performed with Cels, image films, and static backgrounds. The Limited animation is deferred to full animation. Frequently Limited animation is a standing image and full animation associated with the moving image, so that the former is sometimes not considered as an animation in the strict sense.

Operation

In Limited animation 18 different drawings will take the necessary for the illusion of movement per second, less used or only small parts of the whole picture changed, while the rest remains static. This is a large part of the image in the static background and only the parts that are to move, ( Cel ) are animated by the specified image on film. Here, the viewer's attention is always drawn to the moving part of the image.

In addition, movement is mediated not only by changing the drawings, but also by changing perspectives of the simulated camera or altered position of a film to the substrate. Also particularly fast or slow sections are used. Likewise, the dialogues and monologues comes to the importance of directing the viewer's attention on the moving parts of the image.

In productions with Limited animation also slide libraries are often created to image slides once used can be used in other scenes again.

Use

As a Limited animation especially many animated series for television were performed as The Flintstones Hanna -Barbera Studios or Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka. An extremely far-reaching form of Limited Animation operating the studio Gainax in the 90s with the series The Secret of Blue and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Here this technique is in contrast to the full animation as a cost-effective since less work is needed.