Disney's Divinity wrote:Jafar, yes, his animation is more cartoony
To his detriment.
And, I could be wrong, but wasn't
Anastasia heavily rotoscoped? Personally, regardless of whether the animation turns out slightly "cartoony," I would appreciate that they not resort to rotoscoping.
Disney from the beginning of animated features films has used extensive rotoscoping and i
don't just mean live-action reference footage.
Rotoscoping
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
1) "Walt Disney and his animators employed it carefully and very effectively in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937.
Rotoscoping was also used in many of Disney's subsequent animated feature films with human characters, such as Cinderella in 1950. Later, when Disney animation became more stylized (e.g. One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1961), the rotoscope was used mainly for studying human and animal motion, rather than actual tracing"
2) "Peter Pan: Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan, where his performance was filmed, and then rotoscoped for the animated character"
From the book "Hippo in a Tutu"
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hilll ... eview.aspx
1) "Of course, when it came to "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Disney did have a secret weapon: 14 year-old Majorie Belcher. Starting in 1934, this professionally trained dancer appeared in dozens of 16 mm films that the Studios artists then blew up into photostats. Which were then traced so that the movement of this film's title character would be that much more life-like, would come across as that much more believably human".
2) "Marge may been the first dancer to toil in secret for Disney (Says Belcher: 'I was sworn to secrecy about all that I did ... The words rotoscoping and tracing ... were forbidden')".
Re-used Animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOIrXGd51jE
Does that make Snow White (and other Disney films) any less of film? Does it make it less "animated" or less "artistic" or less "professional"? Or is it OK for Disney to do it but not for other studios?
Then, you cannot use
Anastasia's admitted usage of rotoscoping (something that Disney always tried to deny for their films) to belittle the film, its animation or its artistic merit.