This chart from AIC’s English website is a good visual overview for what I’ll be discussing: The process of making an anime is a complex one, with many steps and stages. That said, there can be a lot of variation between studios and individual productions. The article will focus on TV-anime production, but the same general process applies to movies and OVAs as well. Over the last year or so, my increasing interest in this side of things has really opened my eyes to the talent, artistry, passion and beauty that can be found in Japanese animation. So, if you want ammunition to return fire the next time you find yourself caught in an argument about the merits of anime, or want a fresh way to look at anime, I hope this article will be useful. For the sake of other anime fans with the same question, I thought I’d share my findings. RETAS STUDIO is Celsys's latest and competitively-priced animation software that incorporates the entire RETAS suite (Stylos, TraceMan, PaintMan, and CoreRETAS) into a single package.I think it’s both important and fascinating to learn about the fundamentals of the medium we all love, and one of the most critical questions is: how is anime made? For me, especially recently, that’s been a burning question that I ended up researching in detail. On December 18, 2008, Celsys introduced a new version of RETAS entitled RETAS STUDIO to the Japanese-speaking audience. Some of the most commonly supported formats are Flash, QuickTime, and AVI (Windows Only). The software features various functionality such as panning, multiplane effects, moving images, and exporting. CoreRETAS HD ĬoreRETAS is a rendering utility which allows one to set up a scene and render it as an animation, following a process similar to the traditional shooting of cels and backgrounds with an animation camera. PaintMan is a coloring utility designed to color images created in either Stylos or TraceMan. Created to convert hand drawings into line art, it is an alternative to the paperless Stylos editor. TraceMan is scanning software which supports vector tracing and 48-bit image scanning.

Designed to work with a graphics tablet as an alternative to paper, it is capable of multi-layer editing, onion skinning, and advanced vector editing. Stylos is a vector and raster graphics editor used to draw the key frames and inbetweens of a scene. It is sold as four different pieces of software in which each handles a specific task in the animation process.

RETAS! PRO HD is the most current software being offered to the English-speaking community through Celsys.

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