What Art The Proportions And Frame Rates In Anime?

 

• In a Q&A about proportions of anime characters, the writer claims that the average person's height is 5-6 heads tall, when in actuality, it is 7-7.5 heads tall. She then claims that children in anime are 3-4 heads tall, teenagers are 4.5 heads tall, and adults are 5 heads tall. In reality, teenage and adult characters in anime are 6-8 heads tall depending on the art style and age, and children in anime are 6 heads tall depending on the art style and age, whereas anime with the simplistic art style have children, teenagers and adults with shorter proportions. It's possible the writer was confusing proportions with those of stylized Western cartoon characters, although the latter have different proportions depending on the art style and age.
• A tutorial on manga and anime proportions falsely states that pre-teens are 12-16 years old when they are actually 10-12 years old. They also claim that the characters from the manga and anime series Manga K-ON use the 1:5 head to body ratio when the aforementioned characters are 6 heads tall. In fact, most teenage characters in manga and anime are 6-8 heads tall depending on the art style. Also, they mention the manga and anime series Love Hina and Negima instead of mentioning other manga series, however, the characters in the aforementioned manga are 7 heads tall.
• In an article about framerate modulation in anime, the writer says that movement in cinema is real. Movement in film is not real, it's an illusion where your brain thinks it's moving, but it's not.