approaches to improve on the technical aspects . To them th e computer is more appealing . As to the computer's future contributions to character animation, there were both negative and positive comments . ¢ Computerized in-betweening works for the quality o f animation we can see on Saturday morning, but for th e kind of things that these people do, the motion is no t logical, and doesn't follow splines or physical laws . ¢ They can make more elaborate backgrounds with more than two dimensions and fancy camera motions . ¢ A challenge to the hardware designers : Xerograph y revolutionized the inking process, by making an exact cop y rather than passing it on to a human to try to copy . Th e pencil test stage is the most important part, and some of th e feeling can be lost in the inking process . An ideal substitute for Xerography would be a machine which scanned at a higher resolution than the best photocopier, and the n redrew the picture varying line thickness as a function o f intensity, so as to get back the art of old-time inking , without any of the
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