Cg does have it's benifits, it is cheeper and is 
a better bet for most anime producers.  If the 
product doesn't do well, then it is not great 
loss.  Then again most of the cg shows i have 
seen, lets have an example (Candidate for 
goddess) have great looking shots, but the 
animation itself is bellow par.  Some scenes 
remind me of the robot.  I think the best results 
occur when cg is mixed with cels, as in cg 
backgrounds and effects with cel drawn characters.

Most often companies need to adapt their business 
methods in order to remain competitive in the 
market.  Disney for a long time has had a market 
for its cels', i mean they get about two hundred 
for their reproduction's even when the animation 
wasn't even done in cels!  With the expanding 
market (America) of animation cel's you could 
possibly see a lot more componies using the 
revenue from cel sales to bolster its ability to 
produce better anime.  The popularity of the show 
would be the main market theme for the sale of 
cel's, but i think that revenue incumbed from 
this would probably cover only a fraction of 
production costs.  Then again if you have an 
anime in cg that doesn't do well you run the risk 
of loosing money as well.  I think that cel made 
animation is a form of art, and like all art 
certain people will always prefer to use them in 
production of movies and shows.

Different forms of art appear all the time, 
ranging from oil paints to trash collected from 
teh street, and some people will always use cel's 
as a means to communicate their stimulating 
imaginations.  I am not worried about cel's 
becoming a thing of the past.  Computers are 
great for animation, toy story and monsters inc, 
but i believe that a part of animation will 
always reside in cel's.

Some of disney's productions are seemless in 
their animation, but those films often cost more 
then animation equivalents.  I mean how much did 
disney spend on treasure planet, 140 million, and 
it bombed.  How much does ghibli spend on their 
animation, i don't know that one, but their films 
are still selling crazily in Japan.

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