@JovzkyAnimation The furthest down I've ever personally inbetweened was N cel for a huge ballroom dance sequence, but I believe the cut itself went down to S or T. (Multiple people worked on it.)
I'm so glad to hear that doujinshi events are starting to take of in my home country (the US.) I think it's hard to understate how important the doujin has been to me and so many artists I know.
@inkfish_anime My first company had douga scan and organize all the files both before and after inbetweens were completed. I don't think a lot of people who do genga realize how tedious it is to fix all the formatting issues before we could even start douga work.
@derock4art@nahuhnaur Oh, most likely for some of the texturing and whatnot. I'm not nearly as familiar with the compositing stage, but I know the lineart doesn't look like that when douga sends it out. 😅
@nahuhnaur ...whatnot. However, if there's frequent varied line width like in Kinnikuman or Record of Ragnarok, they actually use a line(gpen) with antialiasing cause it's easier to get varried thickness. What's important is to make sure the center of the line is still 100% black.
@nahuhnaur The lines on screen are drawn by the inbetweener, and every project has specific lining instructions detailed in the 注意事項. Many(most?) anime use a pixelated 1-pixel width pen that you can occasionally double up on for thick parts around the corners of the mouth and...