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An important, philosophical question: do the grain should be preserved in animation?

I mean, grain was part of live action films since the beginning (even if today's digital camera do not have it, but this should be discussed in another thread), and movie as medium cannot exist without grain... animation, on the other hand, was not "born" with grain, but grain was a "forced" consequence of animation transferred on film... so, to me, grain should not be part of animation; do you agree?

well, I don't agree.

Grain is part of a film.

And since we're watching animation films and not just moving pictures, we should see them with the grain, as they were originally released in theaters.

Also to me, aesthetically, grain gives life to a film.

A comparison of the HDTV version of Aristocats to the Bluray, shows this evidently! The BLuray seems flat and lifeless.

Look at the Thunderbean restoration of Gulliver's travels!

It's exquisite preserving the grain!