# How does Lutz (1920) keep an animated character the same across many drawings and many workers, and does he say anything about a character changing?

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Lutz's consistency rule is about drawing, not personality: the chief animator first decides the portraiture of his characters, the skill 'still more needed' is keeping a character's portraiture through any series of drawings, helpers must keep a uniformity of portraiture, and since everyone, even the originator, tends to depart from the first-planned face, the approved remedy is a set of sketches drawn on special sheets for all workers to trace from (in a busy studio, engraved plates and printed copies). On a character changing in will, heart or conduct he is silent in the passages and terms searched: the plot he describes is a succession of mishaps growing in violence. The S81 concordance had him as 'no_record' on character change; this is a bounded silence plus a visual-consistency rule.

Lutz's consistency rule is about drawing, not personality: the chief animator first decides the portraiture of his characters, the skill 'still more needed' is keeping a character's portraiture through any series of drawings, helpers must keep a uniformity of portraiture, and since everyone, even the originator, tends to depart from the first-planned face, the approved remedy is a set of sketches drawn on special sheets for all workers to trace from (in a busy studio, engraved plates and printed copies). On a character changing in will, heart or conduct he is silent in the passages and terms searched: the plot he describes is a succession of mishaps growing in violence. The S81 concordance had him as 'no_record' on character change; this is a bounded silence plus a visual-consistency rule.

Curator qualifications: Lutz 'character' consistency is about drawing, a useful terminology split.

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- [sourced_fact] Lutz's consistency rule is about drawing, not personality: the chief animator first decides the portraiture of his characters, the skill 'still more needed' is keeping a character's portraiture through any series of drawings, helpers must keep a uniformity of portraiture, and since everyone, even the originator, tends to depart from the first-planned face, the approved remedy is a set of sketches drawn on special sheets for all workers to trace from (in a busy studio, engraved plates and printed copies). On a character changing in will, heart or conduct he is silent in the passages and terms searched: the plot he describes is a succession of mishaps growing in violence. The S81 concordance had him as 'no_record' on character change; this is a bounded silence plus a visual-consistency rule. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73455/pg73455.txt

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