Post 3: Frame Rates Required to Create a Smooth Illusion of Motion

Frame rate is how many photos or frames are put together consecutively to give the illusion of movement even though the object is actually stationary, the more frames the better and smoother.

The difference between 12 fps which is often used for animation and the 24 fps used for movies in the cinema is that the movie footage will look smoother and more realistic as there is more frames so the jump between the movements in each frame is less whereas the animation will look slightly more jumpy however, this is often over looked as animations are not supposed to look realistic. Television uses 25 fps, this is also true for home movies as cinema projectors can only produce up to 24 fps whereas a TV can show 25, this makes it look even more like real life as well as reducing motion blur when an object is moving quickly.

 The Nightmare Before Christmas used 24 frames per second animators had to create different motions for the 100,000 total frames in the film. Only one minute of the film took a week to create and film and the whole picture took a massive three years to complete. (Mentalflosscom. 2018)
Frankenweenie is also 24 frames per second (Ibtimescouk. 2012) Both these films would have been shown in 24 fps in the cinema due to the projector not being able to handle 25 frames which is what the films where shown in when purchased on DVD for home cinema.