Stage One Idea or Action at a time - let it settle in
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This is a really important point to me. I always tell my artists to not combine a pile of ideas into 1 drawing, because none of them will sink in with the audience.
Use a logical progression of ideas and present them one at a time so that people can follow what is happening.
This is true for all film and stage and even dance. Everything should be staged around central events and ideas that develop themselves with variations as they go.
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I wish I had some good digital copies of Tex Avery cartoons. He followed this concept as if it was law. He turned the one idea at a time thing into a formal art that is beautiful and funny even without the gags.
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