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If I recall correctly (from 2017 coverage), those paintings were painted over for each frame of the movie.

So those 898 oil paintings are with the final image of a given shot.

It is also obvious just looking at the movie that animation was created by painting on top of parts of the previous frame.

Some scenes appear to be fully repainted between frames.

I also assumed every single frame was fully painted (but also thought why, crazy effort.. why not just do it with overlays like the classic cartoonists?)

So still, impressive effort.. but still "first ever painted": What is the difference to classic cartoonists? Just the technique that we call this painting, and cartoonists just drawing, or the more complex pictures, or what else?

My understanding is that they make the distinction on this being painted on canvas and not cells.

But things like Snow White was of course colored using brushes, so it would be reasonable to refer to them as painted as well, although we usually call them “drawn”

That was my first thought. Until Beauty and the Beast all animated features were “fully painted”.

It seems like they’re trying to make a distinction in their technique, but I’m not sure it really matters.

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