>>57858497>>57858791Pokemon's history with cels and digital ink is complicated - so much so that the Japanese Wikipedia page for celluoid animation briefly allude to it.
The anime used digital for its episodes starting halfway through the Larvitar arc in Johto. But digital ink was already used for endings from Pokemon Ondo onwards, the Oak segments, specials and Johto openings.
The original TV airings for the remainder of OS and the first 104 eps of AG (up to the Claydol ep) had a grain filter added on to it. Fans in Japan complained that the Housou specials looked too bright and garish, but that's because they didn't have the filter slapped on. It's like how Miramax threw this weird blue-green filter to M05.
All first 9 movies use a mix of both cel and digital. Digital was often used to clean up animation errors since the movies had a short and tight schedule or for the dvd release. Deoxys is the last that predominantly uses cels, Manaphy is the last that uses cels at all. Plus, I'm pretty sure Deoxys had one of the biggest budgets at the time due to no pikachu short.
>yeah the designs were made for digital in mindI strongly doubt this though because you look at the promo art (which is digital and in the same style as the TV show), and the movie characters look tacky. Diane, Bianca and Tory especially.
