Who does what in the 1920 animated-cartoon process Lutz describes: chief animator, assistant animators, tracers, photographers?
Lutz names four roles: the chief animator, assistant animators, tracers and photographers. The chief animator designs the characters (front, profile, back, three-quarter), lays out the scenes, hands out scenes to assistant animators and keeps the most important one. The animator plans and draws what needs artistic judgement; the tracer repeats unchanging details; cels and pegs cut repeated tracing. The text does not say assistants draw in-betweens specifically, and this is one author's description of a small-studio method.
Lutz names four roles: the chief animator, assistant animators, tracers and photographers. The chief animator designs the characters (front, profile, back, three-quarter), lays out the scenes, hands out scenes to assistant animators and keeps the most important one. The animator plans and draws what needs artistic judgement; the tracer repeats unchanging details; cels and pegs cut repeated tracing. The text does not say assistants draw in-betweens specifically, and this is one author's description of a small-studio method.
Curator qualifications: Roles: chief animator designs and lays out, assistants draw, tracers and photographers follow.
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- [sourced_fact] Lutz names four roles: the chief animator, assistant animators, tracers and photographers. The chief animator designs the characters (front, profile, back, three-quarter), lays out the scenes, hands out scenes to assistant animators and keeps the most important one. The animator plans and draws what needs artistic judgement; the tracer repeats unchanging details; cels and pegs cut repeated tracing. The text does not say assistants draw in-betweens specifically, and this is one author's description of a small-studio method. · locator: Lutz, production roles passage source
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