From the course: Animation Foundations: Storyboarding
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Aspect ratio and frame rates
From the course: Animation Foundations: Storyboarding
Aspect ratio and frame rates
- [Voiceover] Let's get some of the dry, technical stuff out of the way. So in the early days of television and cinema too, the aspect ratio was four to three, and this is known as the academy standard, and the precise mathematical ratio is 1.33 to one, but most often, we call that four to three. And it looks like this bluish purplish area right in the middle. Then when television came in, cinema needed to compete to make itself special, so they brought in wide-screen formats and CinemaScope, all that, brought in in 1953, and there are two versions. The formal name for the first is called academy flat. That's 1.85 to one aspect ratio, and that's what you see here in 16.9, which is what we usually call it. There's an even wider one call anamorphic scope, and that's the super wide one. I'm not even gonna bother going there. It's very unlikely that you're gonna have to worry about that. If you do, Google it. So it's a good idea to know what your product frame rate is, if it's 24 frames…
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