Monday, February 25, 2013

Why This Oscar-Winning Disney Short Looks Like Nothing Made Before

Paperman deservedly won the best animated short oscar last night. Here's an article and video about the new technology used in bringing hand drawing to computer generated animation. There's the movie too.

Why This Oscar-Winning Disney Short Looks Like Nothing Made Before. "A Pixar film is a beautiful thing. Long after Toy Story’s 3-D novelty wore off, artists refined their techniques, so Up could make us cry. But in these computer-generated worlds full of perfect shapes and gradients, we inevitably lost some of that old Disney magic--the nuance of incredible, hand-drawn lines. ‘Isn’t there a way we can bring that hand of an artist back?’ John Kahrs thought."

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