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D82 wrote:I replied to your post before seeing your edit, blackcauldron85. I see you found out about the book for yourself.

Yes, the pictures in the book are fantastic. I’d love to have some of those drawings as posters on my room.

D82 wrote:At least they could keep doing shorts in 2D.

D82 wrote:I know they aren’t making any shorts in traditional animation right now. I suppose I haven’t written it well. I try to write in English correctly, but it’s still difficult for me. What I meant is that if they don’t do full-length films in 2D anymore because they think they’re not profitable, at least they could make shorts in 2D, which is a less risky format, to give their hand drawn animators something to do. But they don’t even do that.

D82 wrote:What I meant is that if they don’t do full-length films in 2D anymore because they think they’re not profitable, at least they could make shorts in 2D, which is a less risky format, to give their hand drawn animators something to do. But they don’t even do that.

I follow up with my second standard question: “Do you miss hand-drawn animation, do you wish you were still working in it?”

“I’m passionate about it,” Kevin answers. “I love the drawing, but I do love…there are challenges to the computer also, but the ease of making changes more than makes up for it. A lot of time in hand-drawn you animate a scene, but when you look at it you think a three-quarter view might work better, and then you have to redraw everything,” a problem easily resolved in CGI when all that’s involved is repositioning the virtual ‘camera.’

“What’s nice about Presto [Pixar’s proprietary software] it has a draw tool built in for us. We have a bunch of hand drawn animators that have converted to the computer. We’ll be in dailies and the first version will be an animated pencil test we can show the director. It helps us work quickly. We’re open for notes and we can get back to our desk with a great blueprint of what we’re going to be animating online.”

Kadokawa is not only relying on Hosoda and other well-established talents for future anime hits, but is also looking to the generation coming after. “We are going after directors who were born around 1980,” Inoue says. “We want to establish a relationship with them from their small-scale start until they are able to work on larger productions.”

The reason: Animators of the millennial generation started high school and college about the time computer animation was finally taking off in Japan. “They can make animation entirely in the PC, unlike the generation above them, who have come up making realistic hand-drawn animation. The younger generation has changed the way animation is done here. We’ll be focusing on them from now on.”

CG in Anime – Seven major animation studios from Japan -- Digital Frontier, Graphinica, Kamikazedouga, Polygon Pictures, SANZIGEN, SHIROGUMI and Toei Animation -- present their creative challenges on implementing computer graphics and digital production to Japanese traditional "Anime."

Semaj wrote:This may have already posted, but Glen Keane is involved with a type of software where hand-drawn animation is done thru virtual reality.

Sotiris wrote:CG animation keeps making significant strides in Japan. I fear it won't be long before it eclipses 2D animation there as well.

They can make animation entirely in the PC, unlike the generation above them, who have come up making realistic hand-drawn animation.