   Anime being outsourced/offshore
  In the past year, it has become more frequent that animation studios are outsourcing cell work to Korea and China for costs.  Key frames and story boards are still local to the Japanese studios, but the sweat that actually makes an animation is going offshore.What I don''t get is cell animators already only make $1 or less per cell (which is why I didn''t become one professionally).Korean cartoons have their own look, despite trying to copy Japanese techniques, and I am wondering what impacts this will cause.  If it is cheaper, then maybe most animes will start having more frames in them (.hack is one example of using the same frame for 20-30 seconds).  Big budget movies have never had low frame counts, but the style may start to wonder. 
  Doing the cells is like programming bank software that has been overly designed. All you do is take specifications, add some caffiene, and produce mindless clone code.I do not expect any major changes. It''s the animation equivalent of outsourcing to India. The work is just cheaper and done elsewhere.   Christopher S. ''coldacid'' Charabaruk <chrisc*meldstar!com> [journal]Meldstar Entertainment - Creation, cubed."Every time I think I''ve heard it all from SCO, they come up with a new howler." Steven Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek ;  Motion frames are developed from key frames, which are designed by the Japanese producers.The affect of Koreans or Chinese producing the motions cells won''t have any effect on the look whatsoever. Its been happening for years.   ---------------------------------------------------laziness is the foundation of efficiencyretrospiral.net | llamas! | megatokyo | gamedev.net | googleTiffany_Smith fanboy;quote:Original post by coldacid  Doing the cells is like programming bank software That is funny you said that because I was programming bank software before I went to animation school in Japan.;  I think some of the Ghibli movies had the tweens done offshore. ;  and noone wants to believe me when I say that anime is a corporately produced media intellectually on par with britney spears music. ;quote:Original post by capn_midnight  and noone wants to believe me when I say that anime is a corporately produced media intellectually on par with britney spears music.I believe you. Anime is created by large corporations. No shit. ;  Would it appease your little crusade if I told you I agree that anime is not art? It''s not art. It''s a kind of meta-genre of television shows with a semi-standardized visual style, I suppose. ;  Yugi-Oh and Pokemon should NOT be considered as the spokespeople of anime.Cowboy Bebop is interesting. Blue Submarine No. 6 is good.I''m watching Big-O, there are some parts which take notice but the big robots tend to distract me ;  The Big O == WB''s animated Batman + mecha 