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From: spl@cs.nps.navy.mil (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: computer animated 'toons
Message-ID: <1299@cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 24 Aug 90 15:43:03 GMT
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In article <1990Aug23.192633.9673@imax.com> dave@imax.com (Dave Martindale) writes:
>In article <1990Aug22.212806.10856@tc.fluke.COM> mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes:
>>                                                 ...  Who would want to be
>>associated with Desktop Cartooning?
>
>Cartoonists?
>
>                            ...  Right now, the capital cost of computer
>equipment, scanners, and film recorders is still rather high compared
>with the cost of a pencil and paintbrush, and that's the biggest hindrance.

The materials required for traditional animation may be, in and of themselves,
relatively inexpensive.  However, the *labor* required to paint each of the
individual cels is quite expensive.  In fact, so expensive that very little of
the "animation" (and I use the word advisedly) that you see on TV Saturday
mornings is done in the US any longer, but produced in cartoon factories in the
Far East.  I believe that much of that is now done by computer, as well.

							spl (the p stands for
							pining away for Chuck
							Jones...)
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