Motion

Always moving, no dead frames

Something visibly moves in every moment; a hold is composed, not frozen.

Two timelines. The top has a gap with a cross mark. The bottom is continuous with a playhead moving along it.a dead frame always moving

Takeaways

  • No still stretch of 0.8 s or more.
  • Fill a hold with secondary motion.
  • No idle loops, breathing or pulsing on content.

What it means

A frame where nothing moves at all feels like the video stalled. Holds still exist, because people need time to read, but they carry a small secondary motion: a slow push, a light sweep, a swap. Constant mechanical drift is the opposite failure.

In a RasanAI film

The motion gate fails a film when a still stretch reaches 0.8 seconds. A hold is at most about 1.2 seconds, and an end card holds up to about 3 seconds while ambient light keeps moving.

Origins and sources

Disney's secondary action. The 0.8 second limit is measured from real launch films.

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