Did people literally just draw thousands of pictures that looked almost identical and then they stitched them together, like a flip book? How did they do it, and how was it even remotely cost-effective and worth the effort?
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There was a song on a VHS of Max Fleischer cartoons that went: “First you take pencil then draw a picture, then draw 20 thousand. That’s how they made cartoons, in the days of old.”
That’s paraphrased of course. I haven’t heard that song in 30 years but I remember the cartoons.
You make a “flip book” on celluloid and take pictures of the layers of the flip book to put it on film. Tedious and it takes a big team. You have lead animators, key animators, and ‘tweeners so the work is divided up.
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