Monday, 6 December 2010

Digital and traditional production advantages and disatvantages

Some people prefer digital production some traditional one but everyone agrees that both production methods have its advantages and disadvantages.
I want to start with advantages of digital production. First of all digital media is easier to edit for example photoshop's layers makes it really easy to edit every detail of image even months after finishing image. Its easy to draw basic shapes like circles and squares with certain tools and you can work with extreme accuracy because of ability to zoom in on your work and see and edit really small details. Also you can store huge amounts of drawings, photos and other media on hard drive, memory stick or other digital medium. With the help of internet you can easily share ideas and work on something with people from all over the world while sitting in your room. Once you learn how to use programs like photoshop its really easy to use them and you can combine different types of media into one work including traditionaly made work which you can scan in or draw on computer using  graphic tablet. Using digital production you can create real interactice work, the best example of it is video games.
However there is also a down side to Digital  production. Firstly computer files can corrupt and hardware and software can be really expensive. Further more even tough present day computers can have more than 1 terabyte of memory they still have limited memory and limited memory can constrain production and sometimes digitally created work can look too perfect. Digital production is reliant on technology and cause health and safety issues.
And now about traditional production. The best part about traditional production is that to work with it you don't need any specialist knowledge, you also have great control and unique quality of your work. You can work anywhere and its so much easier to team work in physical sense.

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