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spoRv
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Info: Recommended Editions of Disney Animated (and Partially Animated) Features
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20-Jul-2014, 8:36 PM

Doctor M said:

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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?

A very good question.

(Okay, I was just going to leave it there.)

My only opinion on the matter is we have no sources without grain to work with.  As such, any grain removal will damage detail or cause artifacts.  That I don't like.

Agree, but for example, during my work on BATB, I found that on laserdisc, grain was almost absent, while a lot of noise was present due the intrinsic nature of the media; after I "polished" the image, it lost a little bit of detail, but earned many other qualities, and so the final result was really better than the source IMHO.

Then, with a quite good "polished" image, at first I thought to add a grain plate to it, but then I decided to not apply it, because it was not part of the animation "soul"... did I take the right decision?