Digital ink and paint

[Frank]

What are the advantages of using digital ink and paint? When did most studios convert to using the process?

[Cyporiean]

Its Cheaper, Its Quicker, Better for the Enviroment, you can do more with it.. easier to fix mistakes..


the switch over has been slowly over the last 6 years or so..

[ThePeterNetwork]

I don't know. I still like painting on celluloid. There's just a special kind of richness and hand-crafted quality that you don't get with digital. Plus it makes for creating beautiful, not to mention affordable, works of art.

With digital you just point and click. Is that what art's really all about?

[Artimus Gigan]

I don't know. I still like painting on celluloid. There's just a special kind of richness and hand-crafted quality that you don't get with digital. Plus it makes for creating beautiful, not to mention affordable, works of art.

With digital you just point and click. Is that what art's really all about?Think of it this way, to work photoshop and other such programs to it's full potential it takes skill to do that. Besides spending 10 hours on a picture with inks and such and if you make a mistake that could be unchangeable and you gotta start form square 1 again...well, it can roast your peaches...

[livingfruitvirus]

With digital you just point and click. Is that what art's really all about?
in the end it's all colors filled in between lines to the audience. and with the versatility of special effects nowadays, to create an amazing looking product with digital animation still requires plenty of effort

digital is just becoming a better alternative to traditional shot-on-film animation. it's easier to edit (takes a couple hours, not a couple days), easier to composite, and doesn't require the task of mixing and matching paints. also TV stations are beginning to use digital feeds and let's not forget DVDs, making transferring those shows a much easier task.

[Dee]

yes you lose that hand-crafted quality, but in the end, companies want it because it's cheaper and can be edited.

[Romanesque]

There's no reason digital paint can't match painted cels. It all depends on how much effort a studio is willing to put into the process, both through existing tools and with creating better tools.

So long as there are still people actually physically drawing the animation itself and producing good results, I'm fine with it.

--Romey

[lostrune]

There's no reason digital paint can't match painted cels. It all depends on how much effort a studio is willing to put into the process, both through existing tools and with creating better tools.

Also, there are DIP programs with the feature for the "painted cel look." Dunno how good they are, but they are available.

[Dudley]

I like ink and paint because the cartoons look "clear".

[OnlyJedi]

Another benefit from digital ink (though I don't know if it has been used yet) is that the artists are no longer face geographic barriers. You can have animators working in Los Angeles, New York, Rome, and London, an editor in Tokyo, which then sends the final digital film to digital television stations around the world (or even, perhaps, directly to paying customers on the internet).

[CookieS]

As anyone that has worked in Flash or Maya knows, doing animation digitally isn't really that much quciker than traditional methods. Things like storyboarding, planning, backgronds, and writing are all required before you even begin the animation process. What digital paint allows is for an animator to have more control over their end product. Editing, and transfers are just a lot easier with the new medium. If I recall, I think Lucas Arts actually used the internet to send portions of the recent Star Wars film from London to California. Compare that to sending the film reels via postal mail.

[ThePeterNetwork]

Um... (http://members.aol.com/pfay08/supermancel1.jpg)

Edit: I forgot whether posting images in this forum was permitted.