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Originally Posted by lindsayw
I do that, too. I used to be an animator, and we call that "changing the hinges". If a door opens the wrong way to allow an action to flow correctly, just go back one scene and change the hinges so the next scene will flow properly. It makes no difference to the story or the characters, and nobody will spot the change.
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So that's why that hinge moved!
Seriously, though, in a few low-budget cartoons I've seen in the past (Hanna-Barbera stuff, probably), I've noticed little inconsistencies like that (doors that open in different directions at different times), usually attributing it to the desire to do the easiest animating, and they forgot they did it differently in the other scene.
Writing can be like that too: I've often gone through my work and realized I made some inconsistency in two scenes in order to get the best out of the later scene; then I have to go back and edit one or both of them, sometimes sacrificing the literary moment I was trying to capture, in order to be consistent. (The book I'm editing for re-release right now had a number of them... big, embarrassing inconsistencies, so much so that I'm glad the book wasn't read by many.)