cartooning

[wan2no]

What goes into cartooning? I thought it was mere animations created frame by frame. I'm told that alot of equipment is needed. Can someone verify this?

[redwudz]

I'm not that knowledagle about old style animation, but AFAIK, they were created by painting on clear plastic sheets, with index holes, then photgraphing one frame at a time. Movements were added by a modified sheet, also indexed.

But this Wikipedia site may give better info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated_cartoon

No matter how you do it, it's a lot of work and takes a lot of time.

[wan2no]

ok thanks

[ranchhand]

Nowadays many modern cartoons are made by computer with 3D rendering, especially full length features at movies, such as Shrek. Maybe that is why some told you that a lot of equipment was needed.

[lordsmurf]

Shrek is not a cartoon. It's pure 3D CG.

For a real cartoon example, take the modern Saturday morning cartoons like The Batman or Legion of Superheroes. The keyframes are still hand drawn, but the in-betweens are now driven by computer software.

Some shows are done more like Flash, with keyframe cels drawn directly into a computer. I don't know which ones are exactly like this, but something like Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi is a likely candidate.

[edDV]

Are you talking about what we call the Saturday morning cartoon shows? These are 2D with layers moving around.

The "Creative" guy makes a storyboard and later does the ADR soundtrack. The processing "market" is owned by the Koreans. They convert the idea into multilevel 2D planes and animate with hand and/or automated technique using a scratch soundtrack.

If you are talking about writing code that the Koreans use, most of that is done in the "Siggraph" world. Google it. This used to mean California but now has spread to tech gurus worldwide.

Some intro is here. I can help get more detail if you are serious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_animation