Genndy Tartakovsky Answers Animation Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

- Hello, I'm Genndy Tartakovsky.

I'm an animator and director and creator of "Dexter's Lab",

"Samurai Jack", "Primal", and "Unicorn Warriors Eternal".

I'm here to answer all your animation questions on Twitter.

This is "Animation Support".

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@tatsumology, "How is 2D animation

so smooth and fluid, tell me."

For animation, we go at 24 frames per second.

Let's say my arm goes from here to here in 24 frames,

which is one second.

So one-1000, it'll be really smooth.

If I don't have the time or money to do it

then I'll start going to 12 drawings.

And now, all of a sudden, it's not as smooth.

And then if I really am running outta money and time,

then I'm gonna do it faster

and I'm gonna do it in six frames.

[pops tongue] And here, now you're losing the fluidity

but I'm gaining money so I could do the rest of the episode.

But it's a fake.

Nobody cares about fluid or smooth.

You want great acting,

you want good jokes, good stories, good characters.

If it's a little choppy, I don't care.

So don't obsess over smoother fluidity,

obsess over stories, [keyboard tapping]

character, humor, storytelling.

@Piech42, "Why are there so many cartoon characters

that don't wear pants?"

That is a old, timeless question.

It's haunted me in my dreams sometimes.

It's just somebody's choice

to have a character be naked.

And it's okay if he has a bow tie on.

[keyboard tapping] Let's keep thinking

about this one, all right, thank you.

@Bezzeroo, "Do voice actors try

and time their voice to animation

or do animators have to animate