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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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.) |
One trick I've read about to prevent this is keeping a writing bible. Basically you just list important information like what color the hero's eyes are etc. in it and then you can just look it up in the bible for that book rather than having to scan trough several 100 pages of text trying to find it. Errors like the hinges going the wrong way pop up in movies as well though. I remember the 1st Spy Kids movie had one. Juni puts a handcuff round his wrist (that attaches to a small metal box) and then he and Carmen find they don't have a key to unlock it. He gets up to look for one and suddenly the handcuff is round his other wrist! There are people who work on movie sets that are supposed to prevent this sort of inconsistancy but some always crop up. Another is Yul Brenner's dancing earring in The King and I. As he and Debra Kerr dance around the ballroom his earring goes from one ear to the other and back again.
