I tried to learn more and I understand animators have to draw each frame but do they draw every single movement that happens in a different frame? How do they record the drawings from paper to become an actual film. Do they draw the background/scenery the same time they draw the movements of the characters or are they drawn separately and tacked on?
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1. do they draw every single movement that happens in a different frame?
2. How do they record the drawings from paper to become an actual film.
3. Do they draw the background/scenery the same time they draw the movements of the characters or are they drawn separately and tacked on?
Okay, so:
1. Yes. Sort of. These days, you might not have to draw every single frame, because computer animation-assist software is kind of smart enough to look at a frame, look at the frame a quarter of a second later, and go, “Oh, so you want this to move this way, this to move that way, and… And it gets some stuff wrong, and somebody has to go in and fix it, but it really cuts down on the number of artists needed to draw frames. And then coloring is even easier, because computers have gotten *really* good at that, so you don’t have to paint each individual frame of animation anymore.
2. With a camera. Or a scanner. Or the artists do the drawing on a computer tablet and *voila*! it’s already in the computer.
3. I don’t think anyone’s drawn the backgrounds on each frame of animation since cel animation was invented back around 1915. So, the background (at least in traditional animation) gets done once, and it gets locked down, and other animation cels get laid over the top of it. It’s really no different from computer animation, where the person animating the characters probably isn’t the same person who builds the backgrounds. So, backgrounds aren’t really tacked *on* so much as they’re tacked *under*.
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