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Suzza
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So I just found out that FLCL was an entirely digital animation. However it's obvious that it's traditional 2D frame by frame animation, so how did they do it? Was it drawn directly into the computer with a tablet? The only info I can find anywhere just says "It was animated digitally" but nobody says what that means exactly. Thanks.
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Zalis116
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A lot of the time, when people talk of "digital animation" in anime, what they really refer to is "anime drawn by hand on paper, and then scanned into a computer for coloring." FLCL's designation as "digital animation" is to differentiate it from hand-painted cel animation.
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Suzza
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That's exactly what I thought they meant at first. But then I kept reading that it was done entirely on computers. And apparently this is why no drawings can be found for sale. But who knows, not everything on the internet is true. Maybe people were mistaken. |
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HaruhiToy
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Well, theoretically they could have done the whole thing with MS Paint. You might be confusing "digital animation" with CGI or 3D CGI. For many years (longer than MS Paint has existed in fact) there has been software and hardware that lets you draw on a flat surface where it is digitized into electronic media rather than paper. Most artists that are both good enough and willing to work for slave wages are more adept at paper-based process which, up to very recent times, has been much cheaper to produce. CGI is where the artist does not work directly on an image. Instead she creates a model and poses it, sets up lighting parameters and the software renders images from that. These days you can get software to do that for free, but good results still take a lot of work and time and above all, talent. Even so many people prefer the "2D" style to the "realistic" style, but what I see a lot of recently is 3D sets with 2D characters acting within them. Nowadays you look at any photo of a year-2011 anime studio it is all flat-panel screens and tablets. If they draw something on paper and scan it in there is no reason to keep the original around. The stacks of messy paper and pots of paint are gone. |
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Suzza
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I went to school for 3D modeling and animation so trust me I'm not confusing anything. And I am very knowledgeable on how anime is made. All I wanted to know is why people say that FLCL was done 100% in computers when it appears that the frames were actually hand drawn and then scanned in for digital ink & paint. Was it drawn with a tablet or were they mistaken? That's all I needed to know. And it may sound like a stupid question but I'm extremely curious when it comes to animation. I'm sorry my original post wasn't more clear. |
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