Thread 150038596

Do you think our society could ever relearn traditional animation, or is it lost forever?

Ofc they can, but it's not profitable because it costs more, fuck this shitty, artificially capitalist plastic society

>>150038596 (OP)
Why does it have to be relearned? The original tutorials still exist.

>>150039706
You should be happy that AI will bring down animation costs down making this medium viable again.

>>150038596 (OP)
We had it so good, bros.

>>150041957
We, grandpa?

Some cartoons are still inked on paper

>>150038596 (OP)
Cuphead did the whole traditional workflow
People still know how but money is the most important thing for companies.
They choose the cheapest ways possible which are 3d or 2d puppets

>>150044252
Did the Cuphead brothers do everything on paper? Nuts if so.

>>150042983
People below 23 should really fuck off. You understimulated faggots have xitter, reddit, bluesky and whatever the fuck. Why don't you just fucking stay there instead of metastasizing everywhere else

>>150044252
Cuphead drew and inked traditionally, but colored on computer bcause they tested both and no one could tell the difference and since most of their animation consisted of loops they could get away with it.

>>150038596 (OP)
It wasn't forgotten, it's just not profitable. Stop covering for profit motive.

>>150044468
They weren't the only ones working, there were dozens of animators.

It's not the cels, it's the fact that Hollywood animators got butthurt over 3D CGI and started turning their characters into formless, spatially impossible icons to say "Hey look, we still serve a niche", and then that became the rules for 2D

>>150045565
>Pinocchio (1940)
>below 23
Go back to elementary school, little retard.

>>150038596 (OP)
Trends come and trends go, but drawing is forever. Someone will make traditionally animated shit viable again.

>>150039706
I'm sure SEK is hiring. If anyone wants to work on the squirrel and hedgehog reboot.

I long for the days of full animation.

>>150047739
Man, I want to see what Goofy's ass could do.

>>150047777
that did not fucking deserve quints

>>150047911
quads*, i was so angry/amused that i went crosseyed

>>150047777
The Lord thus decreed.

I don't get how the cartoon-watching community is so big on /co/. Modern cartoons are a huge downgrade from this stuff. At least mainstream comics still occasionally get good art.

>>150047777
based

>>150049169
Cartoons seem to function as an opiate for most people who watch them. They don't do it for the love of animation. They never wanted to leave the crib, and this beats thumb-sucking and shitting your diapers, though I suspect some of /co/ is into that.

>>150038596 (OP)
Too expensive

>>150047777
Wasted quads.

>>150038596 (OP)
The method will live on, only among the insane, tenacious, determined or obsessive. It's not a genre, it's a medium, a tool, to express something you cannot through conventional means or text alone.
Just needs practice, and study like any other art.
I just wish more were willing to learn. Disney only has 4 "Ink and Paint" pros on staff. Mostly to either fix archival stock, or make collectable merch for private collectors.
Of course, nothing happens without investment or spending. Art is never "free".

>>150051041
That's a lame excuse.

>>150038596 (OP)
I have hope that someone will crack the code on making CG animation look like traditional cel animation. And I mean actually good looking, not the cel shaded bullshit they've done before. Some people have figured out how to do stop-motion in CG so maybe some day someone will make a workflow to do CG cel animation.

>>150051041
a standard hand-drawn film, adjusted for inflation, was typically much less expensive to make than your average 3D film, especially ones from larger studios like Pixar and Dreamworks. It has less to do with money and more to do with talent. Hand-drawn animation takes an immense amount of time and training to learn, and setting up all your elements convincingly to make a full "space" takes a lot of brainpower- geometry, lighting, etc. 3D animation is a lot easier to offload to cheap and less skilled laborers.