Traditonal and Digital methods

Traditional:

• Unique - its easyier to get a unique feel to a  hand drawn image( i think personaly) where as  digitaly you can get cheep looking images which people say that looks "Photo shoped". plus smudgeing something with your hand is a bit diffrent form a photo shop tool. or even the ageing of art can do this.

• Portable  - can draw on the spot , do not need to wait for load times or have a limit to how long you can draw for.

• can get more textures - useing natural things cut or

• achieve more natural looking effects -

• add depth - movement oh your hands and  objects you can sue can create patterns or effects which make the picture more then just a picture and something that has a meaning to it. 

• Possibly cheeper - going into industry both need good tools. a real version of photo shop costs around £1000 , so pens pencils brushs and paperare probely cheeper. how ever, it could be possible to get it cheeper on the pc depending on where your going with it and waht spec's.
  

Digital:

• eviromentaly friendly - no waste, no trees cut down to create them. cheeper in the long run even though fuel is being burnt. 

• Possibly cheeper, having all the bush's allready thier not needing to go out and buy loads of tools and specialist equiptment.

• less hazards - no toxic substances, loads of tools that could be dangerous if left out wrong or used inaproprately

• Long lasting - Saved to a hard drive can be backed up, will not wear away, tarnish , loose colours in light.

• Easy to transport - can be sent in an email . dosnt need trucks or a transpoter to be paid so it is also cheeper in that sense too

• Easy to mass produce -  for instance images , you can just  pressss print , even if you wanted to mass produce a picture you would ahve to scan it in so it was digital and then print it via that.  

• Easily editable - can come back to something years later whe the tools are ready or more advanced for waht you wanted. 

Things i have used so far.

Traditional methods 

i have used pen and paper to plan my story and create a story board. 

Also i have drawn two of my main scenes and things on paper

and pre drawn things ive designed on the pc so i knew what id want.

 Graphic pads -  this combines traditional with digital. this allows greater control and accuracy and also cutting out a process like scanning. 

Digital methods 

Photo shop - to drawn other scenes and keep teh same tones and even make a copy of the file and edit things on it to create the next scene. 

Flash - to animate images and bring all the scenes together.

Scanner - i used the scanner to put in some of my images and edit them in photo shop.

I have managed to use a nice balance of both at the momment and and keeping the work contantish, and good. flash is a bit weird , but ill ge tused to it. 

I would see a major disadvantage in only using one . as alot of traditional and digital methods melt quite well together and i would strong argue against only using one of them , although its completely drawing on  photoshop is completely diffrent from paper you can also achieve effects you cant  if you did it on paper . i think this is the same for most things. that have a digital and traditional side.