According to the popular idea, every comic scenario should provide for some cataclysmic climax in which the entire picture area, or a large part of it, is to be filled with the graphic symbols denoting an explosion or any sudden occurrence or mishap. Such things for the animator are not hard.
THE FINISHING STROKE OF SOME FARCICAL SITUATION.
PIANO PRACTICE.
A. General effect of the animation.
B. Part of the design which is drawn on the transparent celluloid.
Below: Three separate drawings, used in sequence, with the design on the stationary celluloid.
Then radiating lines, exclamation-points, zigzagging lines, and similar whimsical markings—shorthand signs emphasizing the comic note—are ideographs of expression that the animator delights to put into his work. Besides their forcibleness, they add variety to the film.
