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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Big studios like Disney used to put out far fewer feature-length films, maybe one every 5 years. Other cartoons, like Looney Tunes, tended to be quite short.
They did short-cuts where they could. For instance, they’d re-use sequences or trace them to be another character. In one Disney movie, for example, there might be a scene of a bear dancing, and in the next, a scene of a king dancing who happens to be shaped a lot like a bear and doing the exact same moves. They might also re-use backgrounds, such as having them walk down a long hallway conversing, where the hallway passing by is just the same background looped over and over (and the bodies walking are also looped, just the faces move). Or the classic panning jump-attack in anime, where one or two still frames of a screaming person in motion pans across an abstract background that looks like motion-blurred lines or lazers.
Even with some short-cuts, though, the amount of work it took was mind-boggling.
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