Relating energy to speed and force-

When speaking of ‘life’ in animated movements, I would say it is in the delicate orchestration of speed in regard to forms weaving in and out between stillness and motion.

What dictate this ‘speed’ is the visible and invisible forces of energy we humanly experienced, reflecting a dance of mass and matters to the larger universal physics and consciousness.

At essence- the spacing between drawings and corresponding number of exposures translate to speed, variation in speed equal a degree of force, right force enabled the animated character to emerge to life!

(Animation doesn’t seem overly difficult or complex from this fundamental outlook- setting right spacing in succession from one image unfolding to the next; what really elusive is the animator’s ability to conveying the right speed for an intended force.)

When timing animation, I am in constant reminder to look for the feel of speed relating to form and the forces that caused it into motion.

Above, playing horses; and here, a memory from a recent trip to Salerno, a city by the sea in Italy.