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Squinty
Aug 12, 2007

Data Graham posted:

It seems far from obvious to me that the thing to do when you're fighting with primitive technology is "all-black paint-bucket-fill character". That kind of thing is notoriously difficult to make read well, especially if you have hands passing in front of bodies etc, which is part of why well-defined silhouette gesture poses became so important so early I guess.

Gertie the Dinosaur was based on outlines and light fill after all. They could have made it easier on themselves

I think the rise of inkblot style characters was driven by the invention of cel animation. You're painting characters on a transparent sheet of celluloid, so you need big shapes of flat, opaque paint to stop the lower layers from bleeding through.

IIRC Gertie was done in a single layer with ink on paper, so it had different limitations.

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