Random Curiosity-Gaston's Chest hair vs. Digital Ink and Paint, and Lum's Hair.

 Gaston. No other manly cartoon character aside from THE RIPPING FRIENDS is as manly as Gaston.

No one is as beautifully digitally colored like Gaston.

No other cartoon character has a real manly voice like Gaston

"I'm actually voiced and sung by actor RICHARD WHITE."

But most importantly...

NO ONE'S AS HAIRY AND VERILE AS GASTON!!!

But there's one thing that's bugging me. How did they accomplish that Hairy pattern on his chest so seemlessly?

You have to understand that Beauty and the Beast uses computers for coloring the cels but back then, while Wacom Tablets did exist back then, they were actually tablets that behaved more like a giant INTUOS tablet. CINTIQ tablets did not exist back in the late 80s to and a majority of the 90s.

So yeah, the pencil drawings were more or less raster artwork fed through those SGI IRIS workstations but as we all know, whenever you use the paint bucket tool on art fed through that, due to the nature of raster graphics, the colors often get anti-aliased and the result doesn't look good.

So my guess is that whoever was the color and inking artist on the CAPS computers back in the early 90s may have experimented with WACOM technology and early vector art to get the patterns correct.

Or he may have done it the old fashion way which was to paint behind the cels but to do that, you would have to create another art layer behind the outline layer and paint that way.

My mind is just boggling with questions on how an effect can be done like that.

But then again, so is trying to digitally color the inside of Butthead's hair, especially with the TITMOUSE produced episodes.

You'll have to excuse the screenshot from BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA which was still cel animated but I don't have any screenshots from the Paramount+ series revival.

But yeah, even with today's technology, nobody want's to draw or animated individual strands of hair due to the complexity and instead, would rather leave the hair strands to CGI due to gravity based simulations.

But there is one thing that computers can do nowadays: Iridescent Hair.

Yes, I know it's a little off topic but I've heard that the 2022 adaptation of Rumiko Tahahashi's Urusei Yatsura finally done Lum's hair right... well... sort.

Did you know that Lum's hair wasn't supposed to be green?

It's true. Lum's hair was supposed to be Iridescent, or shifting rainbow colors.

But when the 1981 anime showed up, it became clear that iridescence was next to impossible to do on acrylic paint so they instead colored her hair Green.

This caused many people to think Lum's hair was always green when it should have been rainbow but alas, Technical limitations of the 1980s prevented that.

But 2022 changed all that with Lum's new look.

She still has green hair but it;s more colorful and varied.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE:

Whenever she charges up....

She gets iridescent hair.

I've got more random curiosities to discuss once I get every material I have in my USB stick.