Digital ink and paint is the modern version of traditional ink and paint process. The technological advancements that boomed the animation industry and give flourishing business to a big group of people It is actually an augmented reality of the physical world. It converts the lines on paper into vector form. If the work is created on software scanning doesn’t exist as well it, the work can be imported or exported from one software to another for refinement. The digital library of brushes, effects and techniques is limitless. Only thing requires to get your imagination go wild and experimentative to explore the world of digital possibilities and go beyond what we see or imagine in the physical world. It gives a plethora of possibilities like the drawing mediums acrylic, watercolor pastels, or oil colors etc. It has a wonderful tendency for customization with respect to artist needs. It gives you the best of you, forgives your mistakes by undo command, destroys it by delete, create new work, saves your work and can duplicate it in seconds etc. It can apply thousands of effects blur, noise, glow, shady, cloudy, etc, change the color composition to hue, saturation, or in tint.

The main idea behind using the digital animation is to make it easy, fast, and economical. The results are always astonishing as it gives a lot of options and commands like “undo” delete “ or “new“. Animations can be done on one table chair space without any temperature or storing hassles. Only thing requires to get your imagination go wild and experimentative to explore the world of digital possibilities and go beyond what we see or imagine in the physical world. Digital coloring requires software’s and little amount of storage space. It has resolution independence and eliminates quality constraints.

Advantages:
• No longer is the animator is restricted to the black line and flat color infill, like that of traditional method.

• Now painting animation and creation needs a computer and decent about of storage space for bigger or smaller project. Everything becomes compact like a 7GB or 8GB file.

• Animation can be rendered into several film formats like NTSC/Pal, HDTV, DVD, 35mm or 70mm, or IMAX.

• Digital painting is all about freedom of style and process.

• It has resolution independence and eliminates quality constraints.

• The commercial aspects are also very high. It can be shared or mailed to clients where ever in the world.

• Background artwork, drawn and painted as normal, can be changed, color corrected or even enhanced by a correction of the saturation or hue.

• Unlike in traditional method, in the digital process there is no need to draw shadows for any character. It’s better to achieve this effect later during the final composition. Neither should any areas be filled in with black. This can be done during ink and paint stage.

• Any unwanted gaps may be automatically closed to allow for fast painting.

• A color model controls the coloring of the drawings. By preparing multiple pallets, the painted drawings can be automatically reclosed without having to be repainted. If required, changing the pallets the color of the character can be fine-tuned at any stage.

• Real time color preview.

• Complex perspective shots can be achieved by computers and will be impossible to work with rostrum cameras.

• The final stage of any animation is to put the artwork under the camera for shooting. Of course these computer systems do not use a real camera but they do use a simulated version. The computer interface screen in the module is a little more complex than the other modules depending to a greater or lesser extent on the software.

The Advent of the Technology:
Digital animation boomed the animation industry after 1992. CAPS (computer animation production system) a team of people founded the process using software which was capable of a high level of image quality. Little Mermaid (1989) was the first animation film in which this technique was used but minimally. Subsequent films were made completely by using CAPS. Caps were actually a process where 2D drawings were scanned and then digitized with the help of particular software. Majorly the team for Caps was the people from Pixar studios and from Disney studios. CAPS was shut down and dismantled after the merger with Pixar but Disney still produce movies which use the same process.

How to Hook-Up Your Home Theater, The Princess and the Frog and The Ballad of Nessie were produced using Toon Boom Harmony computer software, which offered an updated digital animation system.

3D animation challenged the 2D Traditional (hand-drawn) animation as well as digital animation. But in some of the countries, 2D animation by hand is still followed may not be the traditional inking process. Like Japan’s Anime.