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A lot of knowledge on the hand drawn animation process is actually lost. Studios like Disney and what not did not meticulously write down how this stuff was don
by kjkjadksj 1y ago
A lot of knowledge on the hand drawn animation process is actually lost. Studios like Disney and what not did not meticulously write down how this stuff was done. This wasn’t lab work, this was artists with near unilateral control over process with no documentation write up as that takes longer than just not doing that and racing to completion. Assuming the industry would never change and it would never need to be documented on a historical level, and when it did orders from on high preferred work is done in the new style with the new tooling not distribute labor to archiving an old process they aren’t doing anymore just for humanity’s sake.
Sure they’d be happy to answer if you called one of these old animators up to explain the process but there is probably plenty of details they themselves forgot over retirement. Maybe the animators passed away already and that door is closed. Either way there is plenty that isn’t written down.
- legitster 1y agoThat might be true for the particular recording equipment that was used, or some of the old-school VFX tricks, but the drawing and animation techniques are preserved in the final product. And as evidenced by the long history of independent 2D animated movies put out by auteurs, it doesn't seem like there is any problem innovating new recording or movie making techniques.
- shayway 1y agoDisney made many technological breakthroughs that allowed for things like parallax layers, glow and other effects, and compositing without green screens back in the days when everything had to be done in-camera. But the use of the techniques those technological breakthroughs allowed is entirely possible without that specific technology, and in fact can be done much easier nowadays with computers.