thefortressofscience
Animation question

I’ve been on a 90s anime rewatch binge the last few months and wondered something. Can anyone explain why it’s kind of blurry? Is it an intentional stylistic choice, resolution, or some sort of limitation? Here’s what I mean:

The top one is most obvious, but the bottom one has it too but more subtly. I kind of like it? It looks really cool to me, but I want to know from more animation savvy folk why it happens. Thanks in advance! 

mcthundergoose

Cell animation on film! There’s a variety of reasons why the image could be softer/grainier, from film stock used (TV series most commonly used 16mm while movies/higher end productions used the 35mm cinema standard) to how the scene in question was lit. Anime (and animation in general these days) do not look like this because they’re an all digital workflow and never make it to film.

thefortressofscience

That’s interesting! Thanks!