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Hey here's one, how are they gonna keep the animation cell fan industry going when everything is all digital?
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 03:59:36 UTC from web-
@scribus Three answers: The first is that The Simpsons didn't switch to digital animation until the mid-2000s, so there's always about fifteen years of that to go through (and Disney not-withstanding (they've been doing digital since The Rescuers Down Under in 1990), the rest of the industry was also pretty late on that train), the second is that a 22-minute program averages around ten thousand unique drawings (more than that if it's a Simpsons, less than that if it's a Flintstones or Jetsons) so there's a LOT to go through, and the third is, and you didn't hear this from me, a lot of those animation cels you see on eBay are actually reproductions or pieces of promotional artwork which have been created expressly to be sold, so they quite literally will be able to send you Itchy's arm for decades.
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 05:44:06 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I keep threatening to spend my tax return on a Bakshi cell some time, but something else always ends up seeming more fun
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 17:53:35 UTC from web
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