If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.
John KricfalusiI find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
John KricfalusiWhen you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.
John Kricfalusi