Motion in spatial frames: Exploring the elements of animation action

Chung, Simone Shu-Yeng

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Title

Motion in spatial frames: Exploring the elements of animation action

Author(s)

Chung, Simone Shu-Yeng

Issue Date

2025-10-22

Keyword(s)

• Anime Adaption
• Compositing
• Limited Space
• Multiplane Image
• Superflat
• Anime Convention
• Color
• Animation Software
• Limited Animation

Abstract

The distinctive style with which Japanese animation is rendered is what its audience have come to expect of anime, in terms of look, quality and content. Even when production began incorporating digital methods, anime made with 3D tools are invariably processed to look two-dimensional, and retained their unmistakably flat aesthetics. Being fundamentally technique-driven rather than technology-driven, locomotion and scalar relationships between elements in a moving image sequence are manipulated through compositing rather than composition. A micro-aesthetic analysis on highly dynamic action scenes from contemporaneous supernatural anime series manga adaptations, such as Dandadan and Jujutsu Kaisen, reveal the visual storytelling possibilities afforded by open compositing and limited animation in limited space. Ultimately, the portrayal of space is inextricably bound by the medium’s animetic capacity to induce viewers to haptically experience the effects of motion and movement in the multiplanar image. Finally, the paper reflects how such spatial framings and development of animation techne might enrich interdisciplinary discourse and creative practice.

Series/Report Name or Number

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, volume 6 issue 1

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Articles

Language

eng

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v6.2118

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2025 Simone Shu-Yeng Chung
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0).

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