msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (10/12/83)
If I'm thinking of the correct film it is a Ralph Bakshi (Wizards) film.
If you look closely at the credits you will see a credit for "Stunts".
Stunts!! In a cartoon??
Yes. The film was made by filming live action and drawing over the top
of the resulting pictures. This is just one more of Ralph Bakshi's
innovative animation methods.
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Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA.
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decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPAariels@orca.UUCP (10/13/83)
>Yes. The film was made by filming live action and drawing over the top >of the resulting pictures. This is just one more of Ralph Bakshi's >innovative animation methods. Innovative? they've been making Levi's commercials like that for years. Are you sure Bakshi was the first? Also, I'v always considered that as cheating, kind of like tracing a picture instead of drawing it yourself.
julian@osu-dbs.UUCP (10/17/83)
Yes. The film was made by filming live action and drawing over the top of the resulting pictures. This is just one more of Ralph Bakshi's innovative animation methods. Innovative? Hardly. This technique, known as rotoscoping, has been around for a long time. Disney used it in Snow White (1939), and i don't know if that was the first use of the technique.
msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (10/18/83)
>>Innovative? they've been making Levi's commercials like that for years. >>Are you sure Bakshi was the first? >>Also, I'v always considered that as cheating, kind of like tracing a >>picture instead of drawing it yourself. From the number of people who took me seriously, I obviously should have put in a ":-)". I think it's kind of cheating too. -- Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA. ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl! ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPA
mac@allegra.UUCP (10/18/83)
I believe a much earlier use of rotoscoping was used by Max Fleisher in a Betty Boop cartoon - A film of Cab Calloway dancing was rotoscoped as a dancing ghost in a film I remember seeing at an animation festival... Jim McParland allegra!mac
pete@pegasus.UUCP (10/19/83)
The method that was used in this film is Rotoscoping. It has been used since the 1920's. (An interesting use was in 100 and 1 Delmations, where some scenes of the dogs were made by rotoscoping parts of Snow White and making multiple copies on the frame). Personally I find Ralph Bashki's films repellent, an ugly view of the world combined with ugly and technically unsophisticated animation.