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7/15/2025, 11:30:59 PM
>>7630744
Always was.
The traditional inking and cell painting always looked superior to digital coloured slop, but digital is cheaper and anime is produced on wafer thin margins so they're pretty much forced into this digital colouring corner.
Maybe AI can actually save the day on this though.
Animate a modern scene and run it through a retro anime filter where the colouring isn't garish flat tones or horrible digital gradients, and instead emulates texture and mark making and brush work and all that visually enjoyable real feeling. Would probably need a lot of clean up and a good amount of supervision to make sure stuff looks ok, but we might get something good out of it.
The alternative is just stay on that digital slop grind forever as anime just becomes more and more disgusting 3D bullshit as the producers push the creatives into cheaper and cheaper and cheaper methods of working.
Because God knows as much as I'd love to see the studios actually return to traditional cel painting and hand drawn animation, because it's clearly the best fucking option by a mile, I know it's just not happening. Maybe as a one off passion project if we're lucky, but I won't hold out hope that anime will EVER look as good as the 80s/90s again.
So it's 3D slop or AI deception
Which way eastern man?
Always was.
The traditional inking and cell painting always looked superior to digital coloured slop, but digital is cheaper and anime is produced on wafer thin margins so they're pretty much forced into this digital colouring corner.
Maybe AI can actually save the day on this though.
Animate a modern scene and run it through a retro anime filter where the colouring isn't garish flat tones or horrible digital gradients, and instead emulates texture and mark making and brush work and all that visually enjoyable real feeling. Would probably need a lot of clean up and a good amount of supervision to make sure stuff looks ok, but we might get something good out of it.
The alternative is just stay on that digital slop grind forever as anime just becomes more and more disgusting 3D bullshit as the producers push the creatives into cheaper and cheaper and cheaper methods of working.
Because God knows as much as I'd love to see the studios actually return to traditional cel painting and hand drawn animation, because it's clearly the best fucking option by a mile, I know it's just not happening. Maybe as a one off passion project if we're lucky, but I won't hold out hope that anime will EVER look as good as the 80s/90s again.
So it's 3D slop or AI deception
Which way eastern man?
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