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Forums - General - Rant about animation

SvennoJ on 06 April 2017
SuperNova said:
SvennoJ said:
Animation mostly runs at 8 fps, it's unwatchable to gamers!
But true, those animators are so lazy, that's only 480 drawings per minute.

Ghibli movies have variable frame rate, Nausicaa averages out to 8 fps with 56,078 movie cells while Mononoke averages out at 18 fps for a total of 144,043 movie cells. That was their last traditionally animated movie, newer ones were colored and animated with computers.

You want a high quality 24 minute fluid episode at 24fps, only 34,560 drawings, get going!

Wasn't ponyo also traditionally drawn and animated because Myazaki wanted to return to a more handcrafted feel? I know for fact that the backrounds for Spirited away were tradidionally drawn with a certain type of guache colors on paper, while parts of the castle in Howl's moving castle are actuall 3D animated and cell shaded.

I mean, it's not like drawing on the computer is significantly easier than on paper anyways. Everything still has to be handdrawn (and colored), it's just faster to go back and correct mistakes as they happen (or fill in big planes of color), but It's not like the computer actually draws the frames for you.

It's still hand drawn, yet scanned in for colorization, touch ups and animating the different elements together as well as adding cgi. It's not traditionally lit and photographed anymore to turn it into a movie, but all elements were still hand drawn in Ponyo, no CGI.