In japanese anime nowadays there are alot of smart use of CGI to cut down on production cost. However most big CGI animated movies always cost 7-8 times higher than traditional hand drawn animated movies. Weathering with you and your name budget was about 9-11 million, while boss baby, frozen, kungfu panda was upward of 125-150 million.
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A ps2 game costs less than a PS4 game. The CGI of a PS4 game is on a different level to a PS2 game. To make higher quality effects like water, light, fur, hair etc, takes a lot of skill and computing power. The stuff put out by Disney is very high quality.
That is essentially the difference.
Hand drawn stuff has “high” minimum cost because it’s all manual and there’s no way to mass produce, however, that doesn’t mean it can’t be extremely expensive too. What if you decided to animate at 60 frames per second? What if you started to animate every detail like background crowds, the shade and light of every tree? Very expensive.
The real reason to use CGI is the scalability, editablity, reusability of the product as well as the process. E.g. if you create a tree for one movie, you can just put it into another movie. If you develop some cool snow effect tech, you can use it across all your CGI animations.
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