To understand more about the real local Japanese animation firm's, I have been looking for informations and references online. The animation companies in Japan do not usually let strangers in or to film but luckily there are still some videos on youtube demonstrating the working process of normal animation company. I think it would be good looking at studios in different places, comparing their working process and equipment and I found that the Japanese studio do not use updated computers and softwares even in 2010. I was not surprised since it is a pretty low pay job and maybe they want to save money for better use but this also differ in the studios as well.
Basically all the anime are hand-drawn and most anime has been including CG recently as it does save time. The main animators will do the key frames and set the basic look of the characters and moves, other animators are filling the in betweens then all the frames would be drawn again twice for the high quality outline with other informations like indicating the colours. The frames will then scanned into computers and painted digitally by other animators. After that the coloured frames are sent to the programmers who edit the frames together and add any filters or change in camera angle by editing software. This is basically the work a animation studio would do, they hire other sound studio and Voice actors for the sounds instead. It sounds quite the same the the UK studios but I would say anime studio is definitely more intense and longer working hours since they have to produce a 20 minutes anime episode every week with more than 300 camera shots.
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