some SERIOUS detective work! Incredible!!

I'm amazed at how so many shows (MSNBC, Colbert, etc) can find film clips from over the years what with THOUSANDS of hours of material to go through.

dchill

(38,521 posts)

4. Animation copycats?

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Sun Feb 7, 2021, 05:33 PM

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Sneederbunk

(14,298 posts)

5. Winnie was cancelled.

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Sun Feb 7, 2021, 05:33 PM

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drray23

(7,637 posts)

6. So, back when everything was drawn by hand

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Sun Feb 7, 2021, 05:35 PM

Feb 2021

the work was divided amongst several types of artists.
Some were the background artists which you guessed it would create the general scenery.

Then we had the main animators. They would draw and define the key pauses of the characters. They were the ones infusing the timing and life in the animation. You also had in-betweeners. These guys ( gals) would draw all the intermediate pauses between the key pauses that the animators had provided.

Lastly, you had colorists. They would ink and paint it all.
All of these steps were on separate cellophans and then put together and filmed for the final product.

Hence Disney could and has reused some art assets to make new movies. In this case, they changed backgrounds, recolored the inbetweens and kept the same animation flow.

Nowadays all of that is done digitally including calculating the inbetweens so its a lot less time consuming and reuse is rare.

Nevilledog

(51,186 posts)

8. I didn't think I'd get an "actual" explanation....🤣

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Sun Feb 7, 2021, 05:38 PM

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drray23

(7,637 posts)

11. for years it was my main hobby.

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Sun Feb 7, 2021, 05:43 PM

Feb 2021

That is, using software to create animations. As part of learning to animate with a computer, you study the work of the masters who of course did it all by hand. There are many books covering the art that is behind doing this.