I noticed some things tonight, and wonder if they are consequences of the switch to computer animation?
1. One of the movies at the theater was "The Fashion of the Christ". That seems to be a much more timely reference than they used to do.
3. I've noticed recently a lot more use of subtle gradients in shading in backgrounds, which are a heck of a lot easier to do by computer than by hand. For example, the night sky in "the Undeadening".
"Tim Smith" wrote in message news:ejf5c.4493$[email]...
That's probably true, but wasn't the release date of that movie known for months before it came out? I know it was generating controversy for a good year or so before it was finally released.
i actually liked it before they went to the computers, now its to clean
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True... BUT... all the early publicity I heard about the movie had it just called "The Passion".
"Tim Smith" wrote in message news:ejf5c.4493$[email]...
The Simpsons uses computer coloring and partial Computer Animation. The human ball in Sweet and Sour Marge is a good example of a cell-shaded CG on the Simpsons. The individual frames are all still drawn by hand, but there is no longer traditional cartoon cels made anymore.
Maybe all the Title slots were blank and they just 'photoshoped' whatever is timely at the moment.
Enhanced traditional animation, not 100 percent cell-shaded CG.
One can argue if the actual animation is 'better' these days, but I think the coloring/shadowing nowadays rules.
Jacob Lennington wrote:
I've been very impressed with all the animation, colouring, shadowing, shading, etc. this season.
Rockboy wrote in message news:...
In the episode where Marge was afraid to fly, the "Lost in Space" flashback contained some very good artwork. And I am pretty sure that is pre-computer animation.
Space Mvsevm
In alt.tv.simpsons, on the "Re: Effects of computer animation?" thread, Aaron Hirshberg wrote:
I think computers may have been involved in background design from the beginning. I remember watching a short "behind the scenes" special that showed a "set" being designed on a Macintosh. This may have been a rough draft for a hand-drawn background, though.
Gradient skies have been around for a while. Remember the scene in "Bart the Fink (3F12)," were Krusty, Bart, and Lisa walk on the beach? That had a beautiful sunset sky in the background.
I agree with most other people here that the coloring, shading, and shadows are improved this season -- and I wasn't exactly complaing about them before.
Benjamin Robinson wrote:
Weren't gradient backgrounds used extensively in the first season as well?
"Matt Garvey" wrote in message news:[email]...
-------- Yes they were, Matt. In fact, the opening credits used today still have one of the old gradients; when Marge and Maggie are driving there's a quick shot of the sky, which has a gradient of blue to white, going from top to bottom IIRC. Seems to me a number of episodes used similar gradients.]
How was that done before computers anyway?
"Tim Smith" wrote in message news:ejf5c.4493$[email]...
--------- As long as they don't switch to total computer animation, like in Homer^3, I'm fine with the animation as it is now. There's this one cartoon on the CBC in Canada for children that is totally computer generated, and it's just not the same as the good 'ol days of cartoons. Same with a lot of the modern Disney animated movies.
Jay
Tim Smith wrote:
I saw a re-run the other day in which someone is walking up and down the hall in the Simpson's house and they had a really nice shadow cast on the hallway floor. I cannot remember which episode.
"Michael J. Astrauskas" wrote in message news:...
In "The Ziff Who Came To Dinner", in the scene where Lisa is in the attic by herself - there is a shot of Lisa's face with a shadow cast on it. It looks as if she is wearing a mustache. They showed this shot more than once, which made it even more noticable. This perhaps might be a casualty, in some cases, of having a computer make decisions on the artwork. It seemed as if they just trusted a program to make decisions on how the shadow would fall on Lisa's face, without using their own human judgement. But, then again - maybe they use computers so much that this possibly was a case where they used one of their hand-drawn/humanly decided shadows.
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I didn't like the way that looked either. I've noticed the new animation techniques being used and I think it's all very interesting and nifty, but I prefer the look of the "classic" Simpsons better.
Nitesbane wrote:
The art style of the Ullman shorts is incomparable.
Michael J. Astrauskas wrote:
I agree, nothing else can suck that bad.
Oy! Listen to Tim Smith's latest shpiel!
I hear they have animation on computers now.
"Mark Allen Adams, Jr." wrote in message news:OhN5c.111975$[email]...
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Animation? Is that thing still around?