Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "US Auto Industry" channel.

@TheOzthewiz : No, the USA put men on the moon using computers. Big, expensive computers. And lots and lots of people using the first generation of programmable electronic calculators, which were desk-top, not pocket size, but in use anyway.
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It was not very many years later when they dropped the "firm foundation" i.e., chassis, and went for stressed skin unitary construction. I guess there's a lot more to engineering than this simple film suggests.
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@jwalster9412 : During World War 2, it took companies such as Disney, Jam Handy, the US Military's own film unit 2 to 3 weeks to turn out live action and animated training films explaining how all manner of military technology worked. Many had detailed art just as good. Young people today, who have never seen anything done without a computer, think that computers are the only way. It's not so, although computers are cheaper and a bit quicker.
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@jwalster9412 I've been doing technical drawing and illustrating service manuals of and on for decades, originally with pen & ink etc and later with computers. I wouldn't use a phone to do drawing or animation under any circumstances - that's ridiculous. I use a personal computer, for which considerably more powerful software is available, and with a decent screen. In the professional graphic art business, computer screens of about 5 to 10 times the area of ordinary PC's, with higher resolution are used. The average WW2 military training film was around 15 to 25 minutes. There are hundreds that are available now on YouTube. Studios such as Disney, Jam Handy, had VERY talented people working for them. However, a person with experience and talent, is just as advanced with computer tools as one with pen, ink, and airbrush. Both methods need an experienced artist to achieve good visual results and productivity. Service manuals for machinery used to be full of illustrations done on paper with pen, ink, and airbrush that look like photographs - they never took much time to do if you had the experience and skill needed. If you look up how animation at Disney etc was done, they never actually drew much frame by frame. A technique called "multi-plane photography" was used. Typically, three planes were used, and from one frame to the next, there's only a slight change in one plane only. Within that 2 - 3 weeks, the training film makers had to study the product engineering drawings and notes, develop their own understanding of how it worked and write a script and story boards, then do the animation drawings, do the photography and get it developed, have the voice over person rehearse until he gets it right (synchronised with the film), and make production prints. Doing the actual artwork was just a part of it.
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