But computers colored the animation drawings in "Lilo and Stitch," digitally aligned them with backgrounds and animated the film's metallic spacecraft.

Pacific Rim, for example, does all the production work on "Peter Pan and the Pirates" and "The Wizard of Oz," including the animation drawings.

Due to lower budgets, Saturday morning cartoons are often produced with a minimum amount of animation drawings, sometimes no more than 3 or 4 per second.

His co-workers are animated with traditional animation drawings on paper, digitally integrated into shots but designed to give the appearance of being 2D cardboard cutouts.

It consists of 36,000 original political cartoons, comic strips, caricatures, illustrations and animation drawings by some 2,800 artists.

To achieve that, the traditional paint-on-cel techniques were replaced with digital technology, making Yamada-kun the first Ghibli movie to have animation drawings painted entirely on computers.

Rotoscoping, the process of tracing animation drawings from live-action footage, was used minimally to lend realism to the human characters and Superman.

The animators' drawings and background paintings are scanned into the computer, and animation drawings are inked and painted by digital artists.

Cels, for the benefit of the uninitiated, are the hand-painted animation drawings from which cartoon films are made.

Genga, Japanese animation terminology for key animation drawings, literally meaning "original pictures"