>I hate the trend I've been seeing lately to slowly pan through a large
>static image to take up time.

Lately? ISTR that was an outstandingly common technique 30 years ago. Take a look at old eps of Grendizer or Golion sometime and see how much of the time is taken up by still pans. And back then they were often two-color stills, some ridiculous bright color and black, for some sort of bizarre dramatic purpose, no doubt...

Even cheap-ass animation today usually looks better than the general run of things 20-30 years ago...

--G.
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