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Rule of Animation Conservation

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	Rule of Animation Conservation	comment	Any animated work or animated part of a work is animated for a reason. The Rule of Animation Conservation stipulates that, if a work is made through any type of animation, something about the story or the characters has to justify using the medium. This is because animation is relatively expensive. Sure, it looks pretty, and it's fun, but it isn't practical to blow extra time or money to make something animated when it doesn't have to be. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })For example, suppose you make a big budget CGI movie, or even a movie that contains a lot of CGI, that's about the life of a perfectly normal human family in which perfectly normal stuff happens. This film could easily have been made in live action. It would have been cheaper to make it in live-action — and the less expensive the film, the fewer viewers it takes to make it profitable. And using animation for this kind of film increases the risk of Special Effect Failure and decreases the realism; either of these will annoy some viewers... But, if you want to make the movie CGI, you can turn the family into, say, superheroes. It can still be done in live action, albeit with lots of special effects, but now you have justification to make it all CGI. Just remember the superheroics. It is easier to justify an all-2D animated film than a film that's all CGI animation, especially if the film has a human cast. That is because using CGI to depict humans realistically will trigger the Uncanny Valley. Hand-drawn humans, or even 2D machine-drawn humans, don't have this problem, and so you can produce a relatively mundane cartoon in 2D, especially if you use limited animation. For examples, see King of the Hill, Rocket Power, or As Told by Ginger. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })It should be noted that mixing live-action and CGI is often cheaper than making a truly hand-drawn 2D cartoon — you do have to pay the artists, and hand-drawn cartoons of good quality require a lot of panels. CGI special effects allow the filmmaker to use both real humans and elaborate special effects. Stop-motion animation is cheaper still but doesn't blend in as well. Old fashioned special effects are cheaper than that, but they can't do everything CGI can; even when they can, CGI is often less destructive or dangerous.
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	Rule of Animation Conservation	processingCategory2	Laws and Formulas
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	Omens (Webcomic) / int_db5fcdc9	type	Rule of Animation Conservation
	Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist / int_db5fcdc9	type	Rule of Animation Conservation
	The Thief and the Cobbler / int_db5fcdc9	type	Rule of Animation Conservation
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