To double frame, or not double frame?

[Fear]

Which do you thing is better double framing or moving sticks at a slower pace and adding more transperent sticks behind.?

[Caleb]

Please put Pivot related chatter in Pivot Chat. Moved.

[Fear]

isn't this technically a debate.

[Caleb]

No. It belongs in Pivot Chat. The debate area is about serious topics, such as religion or political stuff. Generally, anything Pivot related remains within the Pivot section of the forum, unless it's something huge.

[Waffles Mgee]

Never double frame. To do true slowmotion you move stuff a quarter, maybe even less, as fast. Add an effect like a big white stick with like 10% opacity to increase the effect of slow motion. To do fast stuff, do some motion blur as you said. Or increase the spacing and better your movements to accomodate it.

[SIFTER]

It really depends on the situation. If you want something slower than a pixel per frame, double frame. If you want to emphasize on something double frame. If you want to idle, double frame as well. Otherwise, don't.

[Waffles Mgee]

Idling doesn't need double-framing. If it's a case of a stick standing still, then move stuff extremely slightly once every five, six or so frames. Less the more active he is. When he's full-on active, it's about making the origin point go around in a circle and have everything flowing with it.

[Lord]

I hear in most situations double framing shouldn't be used.

[RetiredBATS]

but i love doubleframing

check out Doddsy animations. In my personal opinion if you use any kind of thing in your animation and it looks good - use it.

[Horsie]

I always use double frames in my animations, depends on moment, it's nice way to add amount of power if needed

[Gary]

I dont think people should use double framing unless they're animating at above 21 FPS.

[Waffles Mgee]

but i love doubleframing

check out Doddsy animations. In my personal opinion if you use any kind of thing in your animation and it looks good - use it.

If double framing can look good in scenes, then actual slowmo is way better. It's better than doubleframing. And it means you have to put effort in instead of just inserting a frame after every frame.

[Franklin]

I usually only double frame if it is a movement that still needs to be slowed down even at one pixel per frame, like an idle stance. Otherwise, for slow motion, you should probably just add inbetweens.

[socks]

even top animation studios use double framing, whether the media form doesn't matter.
Double framing is heavily useful. But incredibly poorly executed double framing is very awful.

[Cressel]

I double frame everything, it's just such an easy way to add emphasis to a movement that wouldn't be as heavy looking otherwise.

In the example you gave double framing is a terrible choice though. If you want to slow movements down then do so by making the animation more smooth, double framed slowmo isn't good.