The Animation process of Sailor Moon.
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2009
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A behind the scenes featurette showing the animation process of Sailor Moon during it's first season. This featurette is a bonus on the season 1 episode 4 laser disc.
For more about Sailor Moon check out this article at Powet.tv:
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I can't imagine how much work had to be done for just ONE episode! Let alone a whole season!
Over about 2000 drawings have to be made for only one episode.
That is why I want to be an animator...they are cool...and you are considered a hard worker because you have to make the movements of the peeps and stuff..
There were 5 seasons. *dies*
let alone 200 24-minute episodes.
well if you take into consideration that it takes 1 year for 1 episode of family guy to be completed, think about how much more complex this show is and being 20 years older
Ugh I knew those backgrounds were hand painted! So beautiful!
It is indeed beautiful. Oh, how I miss it.
I know right!
How else could it be done ?
@@madamlalalulu it is drawn on paper then traced on software called "traceman"
Well no s h i t do you think they drew it with a crayon
I'm in absolute awe of how much patience these animators have. Doing a bunch of the same drawing with different angles is one thing, but painting the damn cells! Painting each and every cell is absolutely crazy and astounds me. Respect.
1:04 Oh my god. I've studied animation for 4 years and this still trips me out. Incredible talent and process. Sailor Moon was my childhood!
I think that might've been rotoscoped! Otherwise, that was some PERFECT inbetweening and whoever did it needs to give lessons!
***** OK
Anybody knows what colors/paint are they using to color? I'm curious.
@@OneLoveRSR It's obviously not rotoscoped. "Just" some very good draftsmanship ;)
Love it
the amount of effort they put into animating and making amazing art warms my heart.
Same!
+Sora +Carredüher a JoJofag Me too. It reminds me of whenever I see some of the backgrounds from the older Disney animations, especially Pinocchio, Bambi, and Cinderella. They are some of the most beautiful backgrounds I have seen in any work of art, and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside whenever I see them.
This is probably why they didn't make Super Outers transformations; moreover, Sailor Star forms for each soldiers. It probably would've been too much details and re-coloring.
That would've taken forever
Oh no
mad respect for classic animations and OVA's, so much hard work and dedication. Computers dont cut it for me
Ham Burgler if you watched documentaries about how animations are done with computers you’d have “mad respect” for them too.
@@alcyonae true but a lot of computer animation just doesn't look great
Digital was made to make the process easier and not overwork the artists. Sure that still happens in Japan, but the whole thing with the artists overworking themselves to the point of execution is manly a thing in Japan. Its not as common with western studio's anymore, sure it still happens sometimes but that sometimes is very and i mean VERY few and far between. Digital is a good thing
Sure it looks good but the artists were basically dying trying to meet there deadlines
@@idiotthatdrawsakaartist I'm just saying I like the 2D animation you still find in most anime still. I'm not sure exactly how they do it but I don't like 3D computer animations.
Gotta love the 90's. I couldn't imagine doing that, these are the people who are amazing and will to do this. I know I wouldn't have patience for this. Imagine doing this for 200 episodes 0.0 god no
Whatever the salary, I’m confident the animators weren’t paid enough for the masterpiece that are the Sailor Moon transformations.
Most likely they were really poorly paid.
Yeaahhh the animation indistry worldwide has a baaaad habit of underpaying animators
They're paid less than McDonald's employees, usually a dollar per picture
@@ToruKun1 I WOULD'VE GAVE EM A BIG BLOCK OF GOLD FOR THIS
I would have a given tonnes of monkey
If anyone ever says that animation is "easy", I'm sending them this video, with the note "Pay attention to the visuals more than the audio"
Digital still takes time, because drawing still needs to happen before anything can be worked on.
I mean, who in gods name would ever think animation is easy?
Amazing! I wish there was more behind the scenes videos on anime like this on youtube, ive been looking everywhere for them but cant find them!
THIS is why i respect old anime and cartoons more than today ones!!! Soo much care and effort was put in EVERY SINGLE PICTURE.. Every picture colored seperately.. Every pic drawn seperately..
Modern technology didn't really change things much. The convenience made is really just not wasting a lot of resources and tools, and doing some things faster. However, they're still drawing and color every frame today. Just on tablets.
deberias ver cuanto les pagan a los animadores hoy en dia.
Much do respect to older anime. None hold up in quality compared to the Heaven’s Feel trilogy.
Yes and now they just make bad rig and move them with one click
Well but deary u know that we are the ones that suffer? Because it all ends or begins with the investors. Without money and even with they all need to rush and act accordingly to those investors. That is why our wishes on animation is sometimes not gonna be considered.
The guy drawing the storyboard thumbnails for Sailor Moon's transformation sequence is Kunihiko Ikuhara (director of Sailor Moon S, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mawaru Penguindrum, Yuri Kuma Arashi and Sarazanmai).
Thank you old animators...thanks so much for all your efforts, we love you :)
I animate this way. First I draw, then I ink, then I scan to my computer where it gets colored in MS paint. I keep a catalog of my characters in different poses. From there, using windows movie maker, I put together the images. It's crude, but it works for me.
Queen Sunstar
Wow good idea!
I also do it to I draw traditionally then in digital
How dot ou animate aftr ot?
You draw the frames on paper then scan?
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess I draw a single pic and do frames through MS paint. Basically, I select a body part and move it around using select and rotate image.
this is honestly amazing...
Yes, Sailor Moon first aired in 1992 so things were done quite differently back then. These days even if the art is draw it is still at the very least painted digitally.
God I miss old animation techniques. The digital stuff just lacks...
***** Keep in mind this stuff ended up as standard def video. If you look at cels with their matching pencil sketches you certainly see a lot more detail on the pencil sketch but the line quality of the cels are still quite good, more than good enough for a TV broadcast.
Japan doesn't have enough money to fund such task. This kind of animation technique is close to slave labor.
what about digital frame by frame?
um I thought it was good too
you know, with a drawing tablet
I feel you, but not all the digital stuff is bad. The most important tool is the human mind, and there's some pretty damn impressive digital animation out there. Also, not all the old school cel animation was great.
マジで凄い。これだけ手間暇かけて作ってくれてたと思うと感謝しかない。
Sailor Moon will always be my favorite series of all time 🌙💗✨️
Sailor Moon truly is a masterpiece! 💖💗💕🌙🌛
@IanFlores(from a year ago): "May someone explain to me what the machine at 1:25 does? Thanks!" - In case no one explained (thanks to Google+ it's hard to read/respond to comments that are over 6-12 months old), that machine basically copies the cleaned up drawing and transfers it into an animation cel. She takes a black piece of carbon (I believe), places it between the paper drawing and the cel, smooths it out, feeds it through the machine, which is like a scanner, prints the outline of the drawing onto the cel and then that cel is sent off to get painted. The process is called "Xerography." It speeds up the cel process. In the old days, they had tracers that would place a cel on top of the clean lined drawing and painstakingly trace the outline of the drawing with ink onto the actual cel.
Do you know what the machine is called?
@@DrownedPirate it's called a Xerox, named after the Company, I can't tell you the model though.
@@stephanos6128 yeah I meant specifically that machine. The only xerox machines I'm familiar with are way bigger than that, and are just offoce copiers
@@DrownedPirate I looked into a bit, what I remember from this footage was that this room was REALLY COLD or she wore she gloves to not tamper the footage, but if its the former then this is more so some sort of heat transferring device.
I'm thinking Xerox or Xerograph is a Film Term at this point so this machine may NOT be a Xerox Brand Machine but functions like a photocopier, what Xerox is known for.
I'll look more into it, but if you plan to do any animation you're best using a normal scanner my guy there's some tiny portable ones for like $100, it's quite literally the same process minus the cels
Here I am up all night looking this up lol. The closest machine I got to this is an "Embossing Machine" somehing like the "Brother Scan N Cut" maybe this is what they used for animation on a smaller budget/time constraint? cus the actual Xerox animation process is like seemingly much longer or maybe this laser disc video just skipped some steps. I'm nit entirely sure if this machine and the Scan n Cut are tbe same tool though...
This is so awesomeeeeeee. Imagine all the work only one episode has! I'm dizzy just thinking about it!
Please don't tell me I'm the only one who squealed like a fangirl at the sight of Ikuhara.
You're not alone
Sailor Moon is such a special show. You can see just how much love and effort went into it.
they mentioned this fact at the anime convention for the announcement of the new sailor moon next year. they were talking about what it was like making the show and they expressed how incredible exhausted and stressed out everyone working on the project was because of the pressure to create sales. Also usually they have 6 months to crank out an anime, they were only given THREE, which is ridiculously short!
the artwork in this show really impresses me consiering it was hand drawn and perfect in every frame.
the PATIENCE and the concentration to make each and everysingle clean frame. That's amazing.
Schon heftig, wie viel Arbeit und auch Herzblut in einem Zeichentrickfilm steckt! Sehr interessant dieser Entstehung zu zusehen.
Heute wird alles schnell und meist auch lieblos am Computer zusammen gebastelt...
Finally! A pencil version of the transformation. :o
All Paper?WOW
This for sure took probably 2 years or less?Thank you so much for the people who created SailorMoon
Imagine an old series like Yu Yu Hakusho. 100+ episodes HAND DRAWN. I respect you, anime team.
Wow that's a lot of work! I hope they got a lot of breaks or sleep cause just watching this made me tired!
everyone is talking about how hard this would’ve been, but i honestly wish it was still the reality because there were more jobs an animator could have, it looks sort of calming following your specific process at your specific stage and then seeing it all come together with everyone’s hard work. now anyone can make an animation, and that’s great because in general there IS more animation, but at the cost of this teamwork and the beauty that minor human errors and habits creates in an artwork
another fact : sailor moon was almost cancelled mid way through the first season.... What saved it was the moon stick. Literally. A toy company funded the series as an investment and the toys weren't moving so they almost pulled the plug even though ratings were great. At the end of the year when the moon stick entered the show sales went through the roof and saved the show.
I wish I could understand what they're saying... ;-;
There is a subtitled version here, along with interviews with the voice actors. The animation part starts at 9 minutes: ruclips.net/video/wzjqgj5JdCQ/видео.html
@@akim2442 Link doesn't work anymore :(
New generations must know this and note the difference between this and digital animation. Those who were born under the influence of digital, don't really know how everything was made before and how the drawings were beautiful. I still do not understand how many people prefer the animation of Sailor Moon Crystal (I'm just talking about animation, not history)...
Old anime is just full of hardwork and creativity!
So inspirational!
This technique beats automatic tweening any day.
ikr
Its nice if animators have a computer to help them but it still looks so much better when its mostly hand made drawings not all completely digital. It looks so stiff that way
+starryjester it looks stiff because most animators nowadays use the lazy way of animation: puppet animation
they just move a bunch of pieces of a character around every frame, that's why it looks so stiff
It’s not the medium that makes it look lazy
it does not matter if it was drawn on paper or in computer, it is still drawn by hand. it's just a tool and how the tool is used matters.
I completely agree
@@HybrydaArt Yea, digital animation is the same, you draw frame by frame and you still get the same results, just digitally.
Sailor Moon’s transformation scenes were like 30 seconds long but I just couldn’t skip them ever because it was too pretty
Animation those days wow! Now it is has become more flexible due to digitization.
This inspires me to become an animator
Me Too, Animation Rocks!
wow That's a lot of work.... I appreciate more to watch sailor moon from now on!
1:38
Look at all that paint, pure heaven
cant imagine how hard this was before computer animation! these people are so talented
This is amazing! Such high quality work!
hand drawn animation will always have such a depth to it knowing the labor of love put into it. Modern anime just cant compete
Michelle Phan’s epic gifts brought me here and gave me this knowledge.. I feel so blessed.
The animation in 80s and 90s was all about detail. You can't replicate that touch of reality, the digital animation sometimes is too shiny to be taken seriously
It was the same the anime was meant for teens and young adults but during later seasons cause of the popularity among kids the franchise grew to expand to a wider age variation audience target. They have children's toys from R rated movies. Toys and commercials are just something corporations do to make money it doesn't mean the the series is for kids because it was never intended that way. AMERICA made it for solely for kids, in Japan during the beginning it wasn't. That happens in many series.
Wow to their skills! I’m Not there yet but honestly I think drawing an image or full sketch could possibly be one of the few things I could actually do in a quick manner one day
I have such a huge respect for Japanese animation especially how the process was back then with celloid animation and each frame having each animators input
This is amazing. I am a 12 year old who's studying animation processes but only on Scratch. As how as I can see, this old animation process was quite hard
Man, I have all new respect for these guys.
I think it's funny that folks are saying this was the Hard Work while mdoern was lazy, the Xerox machine you see is only a few decades old at this time (the 70s i think it got popular) cus prior to the 70s, all that inking process on the cels was ALSO hand painted, which took a whole department of painters, which in the 90s only seem to need ONE person manning a machine! So we can even say the guys here are lazy for using the Xerox.
Anyway animation is hard work all around, still done and manned by human beings, and they all get little to no recognition for it and shit pay. Digital art is really just a tool like any other artist tool (a protractor is just as valid as a bowl for drawing circles lol) and the industrys crunch culture and only making what *sells* is what's causing such poor results around the world. You can get this same beautiful animaition digitally, hell anime is still done on paper, yes even Sailor Moon Crystal (there's footage of it)
Also it's technically always been digital it has to get on the TV somehow guys
80's anime. A lot of hard work! Awesome job!
I can't wait to see the new series for Sailor Moon next year!
Wow! It is so amazing to see this!! Thank you so much to everybody involved with making Sailor Moon!!! :D
Ww owe these people the happiest memories of our lives!! Thank you so much for your great effort and skills!!
1:55 That's a $1000 cel right there.
That's art! 💫
This is un-freaking-believable😄👏
I respect anime so much and I'm not even of that particular culture, or nationality. I am jealous of how these artist with such excellence were actually able to manifest so many different hand drawn animes👏✊! They have taught me so much about life and I will always love them!!😍😘😍
Love my sailor moon.. love the creative of people that created magical characters
Bless you all for making this amazing show! I loved this show so much, I'm wearing a Sailor Moon hoodie right now! I've had ton's of people approach me when I've worn it out and say they loved the show too and wondered where I got my hoodie from. You impacted many people! Marvel's fine, but for myself, nothing beats the Sailor Scouts! 😉
Toei’s beautiful animation and Naoko’s artstyle.
SO cool to see some of the process.
So wonderful and talented
HOOOOOO! TODA UNA OBRA DE ARTE! . MI GRAN ADMIRACIÓN PARA ESTE GRUPO INTERDICIPLINARIO Y DE PRODUCCION.
I like how old anime took along time and cel animation is my dream job
It’s worth it once it takes a long time
My mind is BLOWN! 🤯
Thankyou for all the amazing effort 'cries'
I appreciate these people so much!!!
Absolutely. Some frames can be reused, for example is someone is just standing there talking there will be some repeats, but every frame was drawn. For scenes like this we're looking at 24 images for a single second of footage.
There are certainly reference sheets for scale. They will typically have some kind of image with all of the characters standing side by side so that you can see the size comparison.
@adamrulz
Not to mention they didn't have clean openings and closing using the HQ R2 picture like in the episode itself.
Nor were all the different/mulitple versions of the clean openings and closings included.
As Sailor Mercury would say to them,"Stand under a cold waterfall and reflect on your conduct!"
This is mind blowing and awesome wow never knew they've made the animation of sailor moon like this
Man, I know how hard is animate anything... Totally great job Toei Animation
people still draw things 'freehand' when they use computers. In some cases, its actually harder just because the artist has to have incredibly developed skills to work without looking at their hand due to tablets. Its actually kind of a good thing they aren't using the older animators because the newer ones have more experience with higher-quality animation techniques. Personally, I can't wait to see the transformation scenes with how things have really advanced in anime c:
Wow. That's crazy! They had to make one episode every week!
That was back before they had the animation technology they have now. It won't be made that way, and that way is the same way most animation had been done in the 90s and before. Now everything went digital and is much easier, faster and less costly to create.
Hand drawn looks so much better to me personally and I honestly have respect for how long it must have took
Thank u for the animators!
Just awesome !!
It was worth it, The original will always be loved!
That is a lot of work!!
que incrível ♡♡
There are often references and scales to help you out, but with enough experience you can just picture it.
There are many rules which help people understand where certain parts of the body meet in relation to other parts.
Will always love this video :3
In the 90s there was no digital animation, there was no million of fans to cheer up animators but still they did it and made it awesome!
Sailor Moon looks so colorful and animated, so magic and backstage look so bored hahah.. .. nice work.
This is amazing.
Anyone knows what sort of paint they use for the characters on the plastic sheets? Cause i want to make something like this too!
I can't say about Sailor Moon specifically (it looks like they're using markers in the video, but I can't imagine that sticking well to plastic), but I've seen acrylic paints used in other cel animations.
They use what is called "cel paint", you can find it on online retailers such as cartoonsupplies.com.
90s anime were way ahead of its time
Ohhhhh Génial ! Merci pour cette vidéo ! ❤
Si it's safe to say that Ikuhara directed those famous transformation sequences?
Thanks for the subtitles
1:18 If your wondering what's the woman just do she just used xerography or photocopying to transfer a drawing on paper to the cel sheet, this technique was cost effective & saves more time also if the animator makes a mistake on drawing. The idea of using xerography on cel animation came from Walt Disney himself & it was used first in the animated film *101 Dalmatians* the only disadvantage of using this technique is if the line art on paper is sketchy then the animation will look sketchy.
THIS IS ART
90s animation is the best
What is the machine used to copy the drawing onto the plastic sheet?
I never seen this animation but this song is pulling me to see