When drawing and making anime?

Question

Do the people that make those really good anime pictures, after drawing it, how do they get it on to the computer?

And when its on the compuer do you use Adobe Photoshop to put in the color and everything?

Please help if you can!

Answer 1

Well, there are a number of ways we can do it.

Most CG artists will draw a sketch first in pencil, then some will go on to outline (do lineart) using pen/pencil, while others will scan it in straightaway.

After scanning, if the lineart hasn't been drawn yet, we draw it in. This is quite a time-consuming process, especially on the computer. It's even harder if you don't have a drawing tablet, but there are ways to do it with a mouse or touchpad.

After that, we use a program like Photoshop or openCanvas (the two major programs, though Photoshop is more used out of Japan) to color in the picture. Again, a drawing tablet is useful for this, but not neccessary. I myself color with a mouse.

I hope this answered your question.

Answer 2

OK, for one thing, they don't use the computer for coloring.
They do all that themselves.
And they most likely scan the image and have a special program for viewing it.
This is what I have found out so far.

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