I'm reminded of Scott McCloud's abstract vs realistic dimension in Understanding Comics. Basically, abstraction allows us to focus on the relevant details, while realism adds a lot of details that aren't relevant to the use case (in this case, it's following the story/emotions). Here's a write up of that section of the book here (but the whole book is amazing!): https://theteachingtree.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/comics-and-...