Posted by Darth Dobbin at 12.19.232.3 on June 07, 2000 at 10:32:20:
Mr. B:
If you've got two moments to rub together, in between creating giant apes or such, could you clear somthing up for me?
We've all seen the "old school" method of animation from those 1950s disney documentaries, (by "we all" I mean more specifically "me") wherein they show the pipe-smoking artist at the drawing board, and the "onion skins," and the cel art on acetate being shipped to colorists, and the sequential, frame-by-frame camera snaps of the cells against backgrounds..
But this is a brave new world, with computers and tweening software and such happy crappy, & you've stated that no "cels" are produced-.. My question, if I may, is can you provide for those interested parties out here in internet-ville, is what is the process like now? How much of it is hand drawn, and how much is computer-color-form-motion? How do the teeming Korean hordes figure into it? Are your drawings and artwork used as "keyframes" and do the fine kimchee-eating artists provide the "in-between" frames?
A sort of "Modern Animation Primer" or "Making Stuff Move For dummies" is, I guess the gist of my question..
And if the process is too long, convoluted and byzantine to be broken down in a short explaination, or is too software-specific, I'll understand if you don't respond..
I'll cry inconsolably, and be hurt beyond words; but I'll understand.
Thanks!
-Dobbin