Comments on: Everything Is Not Going To Be OK http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/ life on the edge of the digital extreme Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:18:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Tom Fairweather http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17206 Tom Fairweather Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:51:38 +0000 http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17206 Ok I think you've justified yourself. Key frame stuff is quite old too so I guess the equation is something like ancient process + old process = advanced new process. Ok I think you’ve justified yourself. Key frame stuff is quite old too so I guess the equation is something like ancient process + old process = advanced new process.

]]> By: David http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17205 David Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:48:48 +0000 http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17205 Rotoscoping in traditional cell animation originally involved tracing over film frame-by-frame. Rotoscope animation in this case, however, makes use of vector keyframes, and interpolates the in-between frames automatically and that's the difference here I think - i.e. artists digitally trace over some frames of live-action footage by hand then custom software fills in the rest. Btw... I'm not expert, but having seen the film, I've never seen anything quite like it before! Rotoscoping in traditional cell animation originally involved tracing over film frame-by-frame. Rotoscope animation in this case, however, makes use of vector keyframes, and interpolates the in-between frames automatically and that’s the difference here I think - i.e. artists digitally trace over some frames of live-action footage by hand then custom software fills in the rest.

Btw… I’m not expert, but having seen the film, I’ve never seen anything quite like it before!

]]> By: Tom Fairweather http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17204 Tom Fairweather Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:41:32 +0000 http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17204 and imho i think photoshop was more "to the darkroom" than "to the paintbrush" :) and imho i think photoshop was more “to the darkroom” than “to the paintbrush” :)

]]> By: Tom Fairweather http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17203 Tom Fairweather Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:39:04 +0000 http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17203 What's new about it then? Are they drawing over digital files instead of drawing over a projection of the image? If so what's the diff? Is it somehow automated? What’s new about it then? Are they drawing over digital files instead of drawing over a projection of the image? If so what’s the diff? Is it somehow automated?

]]> By: David http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17202 David Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:02:10 +0000 http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17202 Yes, rotoscoping is an ancient process but the way it has been applied here is new. As Wikipedia says "Linklater is the first director to use digital rotoscoping to create an entire feature film." I.e. this new process is what photoshop was to the paint brush! Yes, rotoscoping is an ancient process but the way it has been applied here is new. As Wikipedia says “Linklater is the first director to use digital rotoscoping to create an entire feature film.”

I.e. this new process is what photoshop was to the paint brush!

]]> By: Tom Fairweather http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17201 Tom Fairweather Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:43:05 +0000 http://www.randomwire.com/2006/08/27/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok/#comment-17201 An advanced animation process? I can't decide whether one can justifiably label a technology as advanced if it is pre - first world war. What do you reckon? Looks cool though :p An advanced animation process? I can’t decide whether one can justifiably label a technology as advanced if it is pre - first world war.
What do you reckon?

Looks cool though :p

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