

Is there any particular software or software family specifically designed for
making anime?

Are they drawing all the frames of motion scenes, or does a software
automatically generate them? For example, consider a soccer player kicking a
football. Let the duration of the scene be 0.5 seconds, and let the frame rate
of the video be 24 fps; that makes 12 frames in that scene. Do they patiently
draw all those 12 frames manually for that scene which takes only half a
second?


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What software is used for making anime?


It depends on a few different things, including the content, the style, and
when it was made (i.e. did the technology exist to do it one way vs. another?)

[Here's a GREAT example of multiple anime styles used in a single show
--](http://youtu.be/YibyPAsCCJE) we go from "high quality" level animation for
the transformations, to the more "western", flash-friendly style the show is
normally in, to a rather garish live-action explosion at the end. These all
require different approaches.

If you pay attention, you can also spot where the characters aren't moving
much in certain points in the video (like where Panty & Stocking are standing
still under the "disco" lighting), so they can get away with only drawing the
frame once even though the scene goes for much longer.

When "tweening" between keyframes (to produce moving animation like your
soccer ball example), yes, those have to be hand-drawn -- or at least hand-
checked, even if a computer is used to extrapolate between keyframes! Using
certain animation software like
[Flash](http://www.adobe.com/products/flash.html), [Toon
Boom](http://www.toonboom.com), or 3D modeling software like
[Blender](http://www.blender.org/) may take out some of the work, but none of
that software can compensate for a bad animator, or replace an artist at the
helm.

There's plenty of shortcuts animators use, but the computer never draws the
cartoon for them -- they still have to do that part themselves!


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