Comments on: Ask John: Why Does Pre-Digital Era Anime Have an Aged Look? https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-does-pre-digital-era-anime-have-an-aged-look/ Anime News & More! Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Marcus Pontin https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-does-pre-digital-era-anime-have-an-aged-look/comment-page-1/#comment-17326 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:24:43 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=26264#comment-17326 Marcus Pontin…

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]]> By: seanny https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-does-pre-digital-era-anime-have-an-aged-look/comment-page-1/#comment-16538 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:32:03 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=26264#comment-16538 Cost-cutting by removing drawings is something basic to animation production, irrespective of being produced digitally or on film. If anything, digital should’ve made costs cheaper by streamlining the ink & paint process.

Ultra-lush, expensive productions like Akira are rare these days, and Akira is unusual as an anime for its heavily in-betweened (read: silky smooth, high drawing count) animation. Steamboy would be an obvious modern example of that. It’s produced digitally, I think…

]]> By: krayzee https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-does-pre-digital-era-anime-have-an-aged-look/comment-page-1/#comment-16485 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:50:41 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=26264#comment-16485 I think I’ve been misunderstood… I didn’t mean choppiness but more like using, lets say, 3 frames to animate a swing of an arm (take an episode of Pokemon for example, those are some wicked cost-cutting techniques). Hunter X Hunter is interesting in this matter, because I think they changed from analog to digital when the Greed Island saga began and it really shows. Also, take Akira for example… wasn’t too impressed with the art style, but dear god was the motion well animated.
PS: I think I found what this type of cost-cutting is actually called: “Shooting on twos”. You can find it on wiki.

]]> By: seanny https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-does-pre-digital-era-anime-have-an-aged-look/comment-page-1/#comment-16481 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:19 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=26264#comment-16481 That sounds like a video playback issue on your part.

I’ll add one more subtle downside. In the first half decade of digital anime, a lot of anime were produced at 480p or 540p (basically DVD resolution), which means they’ll probably never see a true hi-def release. The Blu-Ray Disc versions of Mushishi, Samurai Champloo, FLCL and countless other anime are upscales, which is sad to see next to the pristine high-definition transfers of older, film-era anime like Patlabor and the Tenchi Muyo OAV series.

Nowadays anime is regularly produced (or at least broadcast and released) at 720p.

]]> By: krayzee https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-does-pre-digital-era-anime-have-an-aged-look/comment-page-1/#comment-16478 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:52:45 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=26264#comment-16478 One more annoying thing in digital anime production is frame skipping in action sequences… some of the newer action anime do this, some try to skip those sequences altogether ^^ Or maybe it’s just me….

]]> By: Aaron B. https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-does-pre-digital-era-anime-have-an-aged-look/comment-page-1/#comment-16470 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:31:49 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=26264#comment-16470 A major downside to digital anime production over analog: One can’t collect production cels of their favorite cartoon. Not all studios are 100% digital, but I’m sure most studios have a majority of their services digitized by now. Studios do still make significant use of the usual model sheets, pencil boards, and whatnot… but it kind of stinks that one can’t dig around the ‘net for cels of their favorite titles unless its a calculated reproduction (which some studios, like GAINAX, consciously provide for a profit).

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