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Like many other comments, I don't see much resemblance to anime styles, but dismissing the results as a Photoshop filter is nuts. The animation style this does

Like many other comments, I don't see much resemblance to anime styles, but dismissing the results as a Photoshop filter is nuts. The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone.

MisterTea 5y ago
> The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone. Rotoscoping is the technique. Basically, you film real life and trace over the frames by hand yielding an animated version of your irl footage.
- erichocean 5y ago
  The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director. Logically, very similar during production to how Avatar was made, but doing the rendering "by hand" (and being unable to change the camera after capture). Pretty impressive results given the budget and time requirements.
  - Pxtl 5y ago
    Actually while Bakshi was the first to make a movie that went all in on rotoscoping (particularly Fire and Ice where it was 100% rotoscoped while LOTR was a mixed bag) the first animated film to heavily leverage rotoscoping was Snow White.
  - wodenokoto 5y ago
    There was a lot of rotoscoping going on in Disney’s Snowwhite
  - webmaven 5y ago
    > The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director. Although rotoscoping is a venerable technique, the results we're looking at with this service don't bear much stylistic resemblance to early works like Fire and Ice or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (or more recent rotoscoped works like The Little Mermaid either). If they did, I'd have given them a pass on the 'anime' claim, even though calling the Disney house style — or Bakshi's — 'anime' is still a stretch.
- dakom 5y ago
  American Pop is a hidden gem that uses this technique. Fantastic movie.
xgulfie 5y ago
If you've seen what photoshop can do you wouldn't say that's a dismissive statement.

MisterTea 5y ago

> The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone. Rotoscoping is the technique. Basically, you film real life and trace over the frames by hand yielding an animated version of your irl footage.

erichocean 5y ago
The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director. Logically, very similar during production to how Avatar was made, but doing the rendering "by hand" (and being unable to change the camera after capture). Pretty impressive results given the budget and time requirements.
- Pxtl 5y ago
  Actually while Bakshi was the first to make a movie that went all in on rotoscoping (particularly Fire and Ice where it was 100% rotoscoped while LOTR was a mixed bag) the first animated film to heavily leverage rotoscoping was Snow White.
- wodenokoto 5y ago
  There was a lot of rotoscoping going on in Disney’s Snowwhite
- webmaven 5y ago
  > The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director. Although rotoscoping is a venerable technique, the results we're looking at with this service don't bear much stylistic resemblance to early works like Fire and Ice or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (or more recent rotoscoped works like The Little Mermaid either). If they did, I'd have given them a pass on the 'anime' claim, even though calling the Disney house style — or Bakshi's — 'anime' is still a stretch.
dakom 5y ago
American Pop is a hidden gem that uses this technique. Fantastic movie.

xgulfie 5y ago

If you've seen what photoshop can do you wouldn't say that's a dismissive statement.