{"id":2917,"date":"2020-06-20T23:50:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T04:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2020-06-20T23:50:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T04:50:51","slug":"l-j-cuts-and-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2020\/06\/l-j-cuts-and-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"L & J-Cuts And Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"

L and J-Cuts are commonly used editing transitions to make two shots more seamless. Fun fact – I first studied them while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. They are prevalent in that show because there is so much dialogue; and those cuts help the flow of a scene, preventing it from being too rigid.<\/p>\n

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However, I’ve realized L and J-cuts are not commonly used in animation, and I am still not sure why. Perhaps it’s because animation tends to be a more visual medium that needs to be more rigid and that expectation contradicts the cuts’ effect?<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about this recently since I’ve been able to get a few more sequences done for my short. I’ve used these cuts in previous projects, but very sparingly. There have been times when I thought they would work, but during editing they seem off. As such, I don’t use them.<\/p>\n

With the current project, I have identified a few potential spots; but I’ll need to see how things look in editing. It’s very possible they get nixed. Bottom line: we’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L and J-Cuts are commonly used editing transitions to make two shots more seamless. Fun fact – I first studied them while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. They are prevalent in that show because there is so much dialogue; and those cuts help the flow of a scene, preventing it from being too rigid. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-meandme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}