14 Facts About Traditional animation

Traditional animation is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand.

The scratch track used during Traditional animation typically contains only the voices, any songs to which characters must sing-along, and temporary musical score tracks; the final score and sound effects are added during post-production.

Once the key Traditional animation is approved, the lead animator forwards the scene on to the clean-up department, made up of the clean-up animators and the inbetweeners.

Dope sheets are created by the animators and used by the camera operator to transfer each Traditional animation drawing into the number of film frames specified by the animators, whether it is 1 2 or 3 .

Current process, termed "digital ink and paint", is the same as traditional ink and paint until after the animation drawings are completed; instead of being transferred to cels, the animators' drawings are either scanned into a computer or drawn directly onto a computer monitor via graphics tablets, where they are colored and processed using one or more of a variety of software packages.

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Many filmmakers and studios did not want to shift to the digital ink-and-paint process because they felt that the digitally colored Traditional animation would look too synthetic and would lose the aesthetic appeal of the non-computerized cel for their projects.

Cel Traditional animation process was invented by Earl Hurd and John Bray in 1915.

The pre-cel Traditional animation was later improved by using techniques like the slash and tear system invented by Raoul Barre; the background and the animated objects were drawn on separate papers.

In 1923, Lotte Reiniger and her Traditional animation team constructed one of the first multiplane Traditional animation structures, a device called a Tricktisch.

Multiplane Traditional animation solved this problem by separating the moon, farmhouse, and farmland into separate planes, with the moon being farthest away from the camera.

Rotoscoping is a method of traditional animation invented by Max Fleischer in 1915, in which animation is "traced" over actual film footage of actors and scenery.

Rotoscoped Traditional animation appears in the music videos for A-ha's song "Take On Me" and Kanye West's "Heartless".

Live-action and Traditional animation were later combined in features such as Song of the South, The Incredible Mr Limpet, Mary Poppins, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cool World, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and Enchanted, among many others.

Computers and digital video cameras can be used as tools in traditional cel animation without affecting the film directly, assisting the animators in their work and making the whole process faster and easier.