Timing and Music

Timing and Music Ever since the very fi rst animated productions, Disney’s Steamboat Mickey and Oskar Fischinger’s abstract fi lm Composition in Blue, it has been clear that there is a strong relationship between animation and music. This relationship can be explained on two accounts. First, both elements have a basic mathematical foundation and move forward at a determined speed. Second, since animation is created manually frame-by-frame, it can be fi tted to music in a very exact manner. It is further able to capture its rhythm, its mood and hit the beat right to the frame. Most animation makes good use of this advantage.