Does Computer Solve Animation Problem?
There is a general concept that a computer solves all the problems of manual labor associated with an animation and thus the animation can be finished in no time. This is far from the truth. Computer or not, animation still involves a laborious process including story selection, screenplay developing, building a storyboard, sound track recording, animating and editing. While a computer helps substantially in editing, animation is still fundamentally dependent up on the skill of the animator. For a quality animation the animator draws the key action (extreme points) still by hand with his imagination, the “in betweens” are either generated by computer or by manual labor. For both “The Sage & the Mouse” and “Sniff”, Sorcar experimented and used the computer to ‘paint’ almost all the background scenes. For animating movements of the characters he drew them by hand following the scenes of the storyboard. These actions were then used as a guide to be developed by the computer, and generate
