Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Even more on Paperman

Paperman, the latest and much-praised short from Disney, will be shown in front of the studios newest animated feature, Wreck-It Ralph, opening early next month.

As has been highlighted before on this blog, the short was created using a fascinating mixture of traditional and CG animation techniques. A video has been released showing the breakdown of how those techniques were achieved.

Watch the short on the It's Art website at this link: http://www.itsartmag.com/features/paperman-breakdown/

2 comments:

Diablo said...

Great character design!!

Looking forward to seeing this.

d.

David said...

Hmmmm ... now that I'm seeing more of the process it really does seem like this is merely a technical exercise: "How can we make CG animation sort of look like Hand-drawn animation? " which makes me wonder if the people who made this love hand-drawn animation as much as they claim to, then why not just do it in hand-drawn animation ? What's the point ? And Disney seems to think they have invented something new here , but "toon-shaded" CG has been around for a long time. Disney's version of toon-shaded CG is perhaps a little bit different because in some shots they have additional animation hand-drawn over top of the CG , but this is reducing the hand-drawn animators to merely performing some sort of clean-up/final line augmentation , they are no longer the primary artist generating the character animation.

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