Cel vs CAPS

[Farerb]

Which Hand Drawn animation method do you prefer?

[Sotiris]

Cel, obviously, but CAPS wasn't bad either. The ones they use now, mainly Toon Boom and TVPaint are undoubtedly worse than both.

[Disney's Divinity]

Even growing up, I always thought the cel films looked better than the newer films, although I didn't understand why. I still don't really understand why really, it was sort of an unconscious thing for me. Why is there a difference in how the film looks between the systems anyway? I assumed the backgrounds are mostly created the same way they always have been (paintings), so why would simply filling in parts of a character give the film a different feeling than painting in the parts by hand instead?

[Kyle]

Cel, obviously, but CAPS wasn't bad either. The ones they use now, mainly Toon Boom and TVPaint are undoubtedly worse than both.

why obviously? for me, caps takes the win I think. I look at Aladdin, lion king, Tarzan,beauty and the beast, its cleaner. Why would I want to go back to cel? The hand drawings still shine through.

I agree that toon boom is worse though in general. as for tv paint, I don't know how many productions use that, my only exposure to that is from Aaron Blaise's independent post Disney work.

[Farerb]

I don't know if it's Toon Boom that is worse or the way people use it because I personally think that The Princess and the Frog and even Winnie the Pooh look gorgeous.

Looking at Wolfwalkers' production and it seems that they used TVPaint and I thought the film looked good too (at least the forest parts, the town was purposefully designed as hideous).

So maybe there weren't many productions that showcased these softwares' abilities.

[PatrickvD]

I don’t think ToonBoom is worse at all. It’s just that Disney has never used it to its full potential.