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Anime Craft Weekly #41: I Can’t Believe It’s 2017 And I Have To Write That Anime Is Hand Drawn – Sakuga Blog

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Anime is hand drawn. By people, with their hands. That’s honestly all there is to this enduring myth, which is somehow alive on both sides of the pond. I’m used to western fans spouting the classic I miss when anime was hand drawn rhetoric, but it got to me last week when I saw Japanese press report Ghibli successor Studio Ponoc as a source of traditional hand drawn animation in an age of digital anime…even though their country has hundreds of 2D animation companies, with new ones being founded on a yearly basis. If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’re likely already aware of most things I’m about to talk about, though perhaps you don’t know the exact minutia. But even if you are aware of all of it, this should be an accessible resource if you ever find yourself in an argument about the nature of anime. You don’t, because it’s physically impossible to – as in, it still is hand drawn. That’s the whole point of the article, but I don’t want to spend too much time on this basic id

Anime is hand drawn. By people, with their hands. That’s honestly all there is to this enduring myth, which is somehow alive on both sides of the pond. I’m used to western fans spouting the classic I miss when anime was hand drawn rhetoric, but it got to me last week when I saw Japanese press report Ghibli successor Studio Ponoc as a source of traditional hand drawn animation in an age of digital anime…even though their country has hundreds of 2D animation companies, with new ones being founded on a yearly basis. If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’re likely already aware of most thin

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