Question...Fluid.

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dudeguy88

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I am sorta stuck on this one. One of my friends and myself were talking to each other and she told me that one of her friends didnt like animated things that were too fluid. Now someone please fill me in on this one...Does it have to do with the movement or the ink paint?
 
The term "fluid" in animation refers to movement. Fluid animation has lots of movement as opposed to "stiff" or limited animation, which only utilizes a few stock movements and drawings.
 
It means using (or overusing) all 12 principles of animation, mostly Squash and Stretch, and Secondary Action.

Disney does a good job, but Don Bluth kind of overdoes it.
 
It depends on the scene, really. A TV cartoon can't have fluid animation throughout the whole thing, but it's likely you'll get some really well animated scenes at least once an episode episode.
 
I don't know about that. I think Superjail! is pretty fluid.

Maybe that scene from the "Road to the Multiverse" episode of Family Guy would be a good example.
 
Ren & Stimpy was one of the most fluid cartoons of all time.

I would have to agree and say Superjail! is also the most fluid cartoon on TV right now.
 
How fluid are we talking? Movie quality animation? High end TV animation? Flash (yes Flash can be fluid - usually it's done awkwardly but it can still be described as fluid). State examples please. :p
 
The only animation in Ren and Stimpy that was truly fluid were in the season 2 cartoons animated by Carbunkle Cartoons.

Apart from that, the only other fluid TV animation I can think of is some of the stuff animated in Australia for Disney in the early-to-mid 90s.
 
Animation in some of the cereal ads seems pretty fluid (I'm thinking Lucky Charms), at least compared to most animated TV shows.
 
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