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Going from something like 30fps to 60fps, interpolation works decently well in many cases, because there's already so much information encoded in the 30fps. And some 15fps can work too.

But with 5fps, each frame can be so radically different, I think interpolation is generally just not possible. You can generate something smooth, but it will be so far away from whatever an animator would actually have inserted, that it will seem more strange/surreal than natural, and thus achieve the opposite effect as intended.

E.g. see [1] which shows animation at 15/30/60fps... you can see that even with the 15, it's hard to imagine an algorithm that would port well to 60. (Use the period on your keyboard to advance frame-by-frame.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMreLeVD6o




I did some tests on this, trying to find footage I thought would be least well suited to interpolation:

https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1156343739738152961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRHmGEEemoY


It will essentially look like flash animation of old, with moving unanimated components.

Even high grade interpolation sometimes has this problem - or the comparable "wake of water near moving object" one. Essentially you'd get tons of inpainting kind of artifacts.




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