... determine the speed of youranimation. Remember, the greater the distance between the drawings, the quicker the action; the closer togetherthey are, the slower the timing will be.K51666-Ch01.qxd ... computer-generatedimages, the principle remains the same. Simply put, the closer the subsequent images are to each other in their position on the screen, the slower the action; the greater the distancebetween the ... the craft of performance.Most of the animators working in the first quarter of the twentieth century had little understanding of the medium; theyhad few mentors or contemporaries with well-developed...