Traditional Animation Vs Computer Animation?

Isaias Badgley: Traditional animation refers to the traditional cel animation, wherein the details of an anime is drawn on a medium known as a cel, and is a more painstaking work as compared to most computer animation which uses tablets, or has pre-drawn animation models and is easier to animate. The main difference is the incorporation of technology as regards to the production of an anime. As far as Traditional Animation is concerned, it does not rely much on computers but more on manual labor in drawing frame for frame animation, not like computer animation as its name denotes.There could be a good blend between the two or it could be otherwise. Some people admire the beautiful blend between traditional hand-drawn anime and computer aided anime. Some anime purists prefer mainly the traditional anime. Other people refer to computer animation as an evolution of anime, carrying the medium to another level....Show more

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Jon Bergmeier: Traditional animation is a very hands-on process. 2D animation is accomplished by hand-drawing hundreds upon thousands of individual frames only to transfer them to clear plastic cels, hand-paint them, and then film them in sequence over a painted background image. This requires a team of artists, cleanup artists, painters, directors, background artists, and film/camera crews, along with the storyboard artists and script writers to work out the original concepts; for large-scale projects, the amount of time, labor, and equipment involved can be staggering.Traditional 3D animation was less "3D" and more still-lifes of claymations done by use of stop-motion filming techniques. The concept of 3D animation didn't really blossom until the use of computers in animation became more practical. Comp! uter animation removes the need for many of the extra tools re! quired to create an animation....Show more