How are the Animation transferred from the pages as Drawings to, well.. animations?

[DSB]

Whats the process? I once learned that back in the old days each frame were drawn by hand, scanned and then the 24 frames made 1 second of animation. Clearly nothing of that sort is done today. Whats the technique?

Ajay, care to explain?

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

Kanzenshuu has you covered about the Japanese animation process.

[KBABZ]

Nowadays for shows like Super, the drawing happens digitally on a computer. This has a bunch of advantages like making the production process cheaper (no more faffing about with cel layers), and you don't have to worry about video degradation for use of effects shots.

In the old days you would have a lineartist go over the drawings to make the black lines, and then an inker who would actually colour in the cels. These would be laid over the background paintings and put into a machine that would layer the two on top of each other and then photograph them to put onto film.

[JazzMazz]

Nowadays for shows like Super, the drawing happens digitally on a computer. This has a bunch of advantages like making the production process cheaper (no more faffing about with cel layers), and you don't have to worry about video degradation for use of effects shots.

In the old days you would have a lineartist go over the drawings to make the black lines, and then an inker who would actually colour in the cels. These would be laid over the background paintings and put into a machine that would layer the two on top of each other and then photograph them to put onto film.

The inital KA process is still hand-drawn though.

[DSB]

Kanzenshuu has you covered about the Japanese animation process.

WOW That's Insanely detailed. Thanks!!!

[ErikB]

Nowadays for shows like Super, the drawing happens digitally on a computer. This has a bunch of advantages like making the production process cheaper (no more faffing about with cel layers), and you don't have to worry about video degradation for use of effects shots.

In the old days you would have a lineartist go over the drawings to make the black lines, and then an inker who would actually colour in the cels. These would be laid over the background paintings and put into a machine that would layer the two on top of each other and then photograph them to put onto film.

The inital KA process is still hand-drawn though.

"Digital" isn't mutually exclusive with "hand-drawn." That said, I believe for Super, they do start the drawings on paper. They don't necessarily need to though.

[Robo4900]

From what I understand, the broad strokes of it is this...

Back in the day, they'd paint a background, and draw each frame of the actual moving parts on transparent sheets using ink(Although sometimes they'd draw some of it on one sheet, then draw parts that change on other sheets, so instead of each frame being a totally new drawing, only the parts that need to change do; most notably the mouths). They would put the sheets on top of the background paintings, and take pictures of this on photographic film, which would be played back as motion picture film.
Nowadays, they do it all on computers using various digital tools. You can probably buy similar software to what they use for animating Super online.

But yeah, the Kanzenshuu article is the place to look if you want a more detailed look at how this works.