What does TOEI use to animate with now?

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What does TOEI use to animate with now?

Post by eledoremassis02 » Fri Sep 11, 2015 1:26 am

I've been watching some videos and it seems both in Japan and Philippines they use photoshop? I know there is an animation plug in, but whats the program they used to trace over scenes for Dragon Ball Kai and what was shown in the rough animation of what I think was the kai opening?. Any ideas?

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also found this video about TOEI animation philippines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBL3TzRaj-c
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Re: What does TOEI use to animate with now?

Post by PolatGuy92 » Fri Sep 11, 2015 3:56 am

Photoshop is way too expensive for them. They've probably use Paint.net :P
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Re: What does TOEI use to animate with now?

Post by Chuquita » Fri Sep 11, 2015 9:40 am

Looks like Apple computers with Photoshop on them, but I could be wrong.
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Re: What does TOEI use to animate with now?

Post by irreality » Mon Sep 14, 2015 5:55 pm

Definitely Photoshop, macs on the first few images, windows on the last images. You can tell by the iconic "feather" at the top of the toolbox, and the blurry application title on the macs has the length and ascenders/descenders of the word Photoshop.
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Re: What does TOEI use to animate with now?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:42 pm

MS Paint. :P

Seriously, they probably use some high-end Japanese artist software and photoshop.
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Re: What does TOEI use to animate with now?

Post by JulieYBM » Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:46 pm

Most animators in Japan still draw on paper, but some do use Flash and tablets.
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Re: What does TOEI use to animate with now?

Post by NinjaGoku » Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:48 am

They use Retas Suite for just about everything. Keyframes are done on pencil and scanned, backgrounds probably Photoshop or something similar, audio who knows, but all elements are brought together using Retas.
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