Matt (zeldatra)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jan-21 06:06:29 UTC

Matt

Animation DRAWINGS are even more numerous because even after going digital, a lot of animators still worked on paper for layout and drawing the key poses and such. The Simpsons didn't go paperless until The Simpsons Movie in 2007. Family Guy took even longer, with the 2009 special "Something, Something, Something Darkside" being the last episode to be animated on paper - they switched to ToonBoom starting with the next production season since the studio was also working on The Cleveland Show, which was paperless from the start (American Dad, also animated by the same studio, switched around the same time). Disney tried to go paperless with The Princess and the Frog in 2009, but the animators weren't comfortable with using Cintiqs and did layout drawings on paper anyway. Anime productions were still done on paper as recently as 2018 and some might still do so today - in fact, over there Pokemon actually made the *news* for going paperless.