Physics in animated films

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Physics in animated films is a joking system of physical laws that overrides the actual laws and is used in animated films as a humorous effect. While the normal physical laws are referential (i.e. objective and immutable), the physics in such films is preferential (i.e. subjective and mutable).

Many of the best-known American cartoons , especially those by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, have developed similar “laws” that have become a common means of staging in comic animated films. A typical example is a scene in which a cartoon character walks over a cliff: gravity is suspended until the character notices and reacts.

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Specific references to physics in cartoons go back to June 1980 when the article " O'Donnell 's Laws of Cartoon Motion" appeared in Esquire . A version of the article published in the Journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (v. 18 No. 7 p. 12, 1994) has helped to make the physics of cartoons known to a technical audience, too have expanded and refined the concepts.

The following laws are found in O'Donnell's article:

  • Every body that is suspended in the room remains in it until it becomes aware of it. Then the actual gravity sets in. Because of this, babies in cartoons can resist gravity for long periods of time. Likewise, figures can therefore run over a cliff and not fall down until they look down. If the film itself alludes to the fact that characters oppose Newton's law of gravity , it is often explained that they never learned the laws.
  • Any body that passes solids (mostly at high speed) leaves a hole that conforms to the silhouette of that body.
  • Certain bodies can go through holes or tunnel entrances painted on the wall, while others cannot. In addition, holes can be movable.
  • All principles of gravity are suspended by fear. If someone is frightened, he can jump to impossible heights.
  • Any forceful deformation of feline substance will not be effective over the long term. This means that wounded cats heal faster or have an infinite number of lives. Plus, in cartoons, cats fit into unusually small spaces.
  • Everything falls faster than an anvil . A falling anvil will always fall directly on the head of a figure, regardless of the interval between the body and the anvil.
  • Any vehicle on a transport path is in a state of indeterminacy until an object also enters the transport path. For example, the wolf can see left and right to check whether it is safe to cross the street and sees nothing - but as soon as it enters the street, it is run over by a bus.

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The idea that animation behaves differently from the real world, but that it does not happen indiscriminately, has been prevalent since the making of cartoons. Walt Disney , for example, spoke of the plausible impossible in 1956.

In Warner Brothers Looney Tunes There are numerous examples from the own physics cartoon animations (including in Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote ) and it has even admitted that the physics of the real world has been ignored. In High Diving Hare (1948) there is a scene in which Yosemite Sam saws off a diving board that Bugs Bunny is standing on from its platform. The platform on which Sam is and his ladder collapse while the sawed-off springboard and bugs float in the air. This turns to the camera and says: "I know this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never 'studied' law!" Loosely translated this statement means that while Bugs Bunny knows that it violates the law of gravity, he never learned the laws.

Even later, some animated characters, including Roger Rabbit , Bonkers D. Bobcat and Yakko, Wakko and Dot , explicitly stated that animated films are allowed to bend or break natural laws for humorous purposes. Doing this is extremely tricky, which gives animation animation a natural sense of comedic timing and gives it fun qualities.

For example, in Wrestling with Roger Rabbit, it is impossible for Roger to break free of his handcuffs for most of a scene, right up to the moment he holds the table while Eddie Valiant tries to saw the handcuffs. When Eddie asks if Roger could have removed the handcuffs at any time, he replies that this is not always possible, only when it's funny. Several aspects of cartoon physics were discussed by the characters throughout the course of the film, and that concept was also a small, consistent theme throughout the film.

In 1993 Stephen R. Gould, who at the time was a Financial Training Consultant and wrote to New Scientist , said that these seemingly nonsensical phenomena can be described with laws of logic similar to those of our real world. Furthermore, he said that such events are by no means limited to the looniverse and that laws that control our own universe are often contradicting common sense. This topic is also discussed by Dr. Alan Cholodenko was taken up in his article "The Nutty Universe of Animation".

In the Garfield short film "The Secrets of Animated Film", the characters Orson and Wade explain various laws of animation physics and show them using humorous examples.

In 2012, O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoons served as the template for a presentation and exhibition by Andy Holden at the Stanley Picker Gallery called "Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape," where the physics of cartoons in relation to art and the end of art history was shown.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark O'Donnell. "The Laws of Cartoon Motion". Esquire . June, 1980. Republished in IEEE Institute , vol. 18, no.7, p. October 12, 1994.
  2. ↑ IMDB quotes from "Roger Rabbit"
  3. ↑ Stephen R. Gould. " Looney Tuniverse: There is a crazy kind of physics at work in the world of cartoons ". New Scientist . December, 1993.
  4. ↑ Dr. Alan Cholodenko. " The Nutty Universe of Animation, The" Discipline "of All" Disciplines ", And That's Not All, Folks! ". International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 3, no. January 1, 2006.
  5. ^ Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape on Vimeo
  6. ^ Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape | Stanley Picker Gallery

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