Traditional and digital

My opinion of the potential for using traditional and digital methods of production are that one can never easily be classed as better than the other. One can be used better than the other in certain situations, I have bullet pointed below for each one what I considered to be unique points.

Traditional

• Can be convenient for any situation anywhere when you have it, paper and pencil is easy to carry  round, whereas computers rely on a power supply and are usually not portable..
• The lead can be used for unique shading, such as smudging with your finger.
• The technology to produce digital productions can be very expensive, whereas tools and materials for traditional are considerably cheap.
• The majority of people are more familiar with hand drawing than digital drawing.
• Traditional art has been around since the cave men, whereas digital art is quite recent. We are far more familiar with traditional art.
• Digital work files can corrupt
• Digital work has no psyhical texture, whereas traditional does.
• Health and safety isn't really a known issue with traditional work, whereas digital is. For example, using a computer, the screen can potentially cause damage to eyes over time.
• More control
• Team work can be easier, for example a group mind map.

Digital

• Using tablets can more convenient for artists once they become familiar with it.
• You can create alot more detail and depth in art, particularly using the tablet, which can sometimes be far more troublesome to achieve doing so traditionally 
• Through animation, art can be created in a moving animation which is alot easier nowadays to be done with programs like flash.
• The ease of editing and saving work
• With saving, multiple copys can be made, this is useful for prototype work
• With existing tools, it can be easier and quicker to do things, for example using an oval tool in photoshop, can create a circle with ease and how you want it.
• Computer can calculate, like the colours(knowing 16 million) or the tween in flash.
• Work or ideas can be sent to other via e-mail.
• Access to source materials, such as images from the internet.
• combining different types of media together.
• Although it may take a while to get used to the tablet, people who prefer drawing traditional can find using the tablet similar, but now allowing to do work digitally.

Things I have used - Digital


I have used programs like photoshop for photo manipulation and other means of production
I have used flash to create animations.
I have experimented with a graphics tablet, which after becoming familiar with, could be a very useful asset in digital production.
I have used a scanner, which can allow me to scan traditional work onto computers so that I can edit my traditional drawings in digital. This was useful for scanning storyboards or characters.

Traditional 


I have used traditional pencil and paper to draw my storyboard and experiment with character creation.
Although the graphics tablet is used for digital means, it can also be considered linked with traditional, as it's supposed to be used how someone would drawing in traditional means on paper.


Through this I can see that the use of both traditional and digital means of production, they can be a major advantage and connivence to anyones work. I would argue that neither should be considered better than the other for means of production and more so should come hand in hand for anyones work as means of production.