Potential and Limitations - 3 - Process

The process that I chose was hand - drawn animation with water colour backgrounds. I feel as though using the traditional hand - drawn technique using photoshop does have it's limitations. It's obviously time consuming and repetitive so it's quite easy to lose interest easily. however, with software such as After Effects, the process can be made less time consuming by using software such as this to add camera zooms and certain effects. When animating using paper, colours can often lose vividness and lines can become faded from scanning them in which can be quite time consuming to alter as well. Hand - drawn animation is traditional and can be quite nostalgic which is why I feel some animaton studios such as Cartoon Saloon are what I strive to achieve aesthetically. Their animated features have amazing colours that is often achieved by using practical mediums like water colour. However, it can be quite limiting in the sense that the colours can often fade when translating them into digital.