Digital Animation

[optimal321]

Okay, i know that BB switched from traditional cel animation to digital, but what exactly is digital animation? I mean, i can see the difference, and since it is digital animation, i'm guessing it has something to do w/ computers, but does anyone know the difference?

[The Mad Hatter]

Essentially, the images in digital animation are hand-drawn, but instead of being traced onto a transparent sheet of celuloid and colored with paints, the drawings are scanned into a computer and colored that way. So even though it looks like cel animation, everything you're doing has been put through a computer. Disney's been coloring their drawings digitally at least since Beauty and the Beast, probably before that too. The colors can be sharper (if not too sharp, as the first digitally colored eps were a bit bright), and now it's getting more cost and time effective for TV. The only downside: no more cels for collectors!

[Inque]

the animation does look a lot better though