A lot of posts have been regarding how as technology advances, many things become phased out, like books for e-books and paper for digital images. Even animation is now computer based. However, one thing I know about creating anime, while the process is done on the computer, handmade sketches are still used for reference. An artist sketches out a scene on paper which goes to the animator to use to create and animate the scene. It’s things like this which remind me that some old technologies die harder than others.

On a side note, production sketches can be bought for fairly cheap (considering what they are), which I learned from my collector friend. For those that are curious, this is my friend’s site where he shows off his collection along side screenshots of the scenes the sketches come from.