Cel Animated Show That Switched to Digital Coloring

[cheril59]

Dooly the Little Dinosaur used cels in the start for the 1987-88 series/first season, while the 2008-2012 revival/second/final season used digital coloring. So, this shoud not counted or possibly?

And many episodes that since used cels are likely the last ones to use this (The Powerpuff Girls (1998 series) episode "West in Pieces" is likely one of the last cel animated western cartoon along with the Ed, Edd n Eddy season 4 episode finale "Take This Ed and Shove It", Pepper Ann episode "Effie Shrugged" is the last episode to use cels and Doraemon (1979 anime series) episode "All the Way From the Country of the Future" was also the last episode to use traditional cel animation).

Despite only 13 segments of Recess used digital coloring, when counting on the last episode which still used cels, it was the last Walt Disney Television Animation production to use this cels.

Well, I'm not counting on the title sequences that used digital coloring including Dilbert, etc.

Do I need to say this again? The Powerpuff Girls: West in Pieces used digital ink and paint, but special effects were used to make it look like an old western film.

 

[wiley207]

Now that the forum is operational again, I thought it'd be worth mentioning that Warner Bros. recently gave "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" a high-definition remaster, currently streaming on Tubi!

The digitally-colored first season had the episodes upscaled and then some color-correction and noise-reduction applied, and they look pretty good! It's good to know Warner IS capable of restoring the Hanna-Barbera output animated on their computer system in the 80s; I suspect it just requires a bit of extra work due to the 640x480 video output from said computer.

The subsequent seasons that used hand-painted cel animation were restored from the original animation negatives, as expected. It looks kind of similar to the digitally-colored episodes now, but a lot sharper. But it's not entirely perfect; there are some shots where they just upscaled and did noise-reduction on the TV masters. I suspect said shots were either misplaced or damaged from the negatives, very much like the recent HD restoration of the Looney Tunes short "Beanstalk Bunny" that had a brief shot similarly remastered from a theatrical print to cover up the damaged section of the negatives.

Could this mean a Blu-Ray release of "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" might not be far off?

 

[harry580]

Now that the forum is operational again, I thought it'd be worth mentioning that Warner Bros. recently gave "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" a high-definition remaster, currently streaming on Tubi!
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The digitally-colored first season had the episodes upscaled and then some color-correction and noise-reduction applied, and they look pretty good! It's good to know Warner IS capable of restoring the Hanna-Barbera output animated on their computer system in the 80s; I suspect it just requires a bit of extra work due to the 640x480 video output from said computer.
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The subsequent seasons that used hand-painted cel animation were restored from the original animation negatives, as expected. It looks kind of similar to the digitally-colored episodes now, but a lot sharper. But it's not entirely perfect; there are some shots where they just upscaled and did noise-reduction on the TV masters. I suspect said shots were either misplaced or damaged from the negatives, very much like the recent HD restoration of the Looney Tunes short "Beanstalk Bunny" that had a brief shot similarly remastered from a theatrical print to cover up the damaged section of the negatives.

Could this mean a Blu-Ray release of "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" might not be far off?

I wouldn't be surprise at this point if all this remastering could lead to the blu ray release of this show