Disney Paperman - Technical Break down

Spiffy

Disney are releasing a short called paper man which features a pretty convincing 2D animation style, but rendered in 3D.
Just thought it was interesting, pretty amazing work.

http://www.itsartmag.com/features/paperman-breakdown/#.UGvo5E3MjCI
Video of the break down in the link.

Alismuffin

Wow! Goodbye cell animation

Bellsey

kinda already happened,(to the best of my knowledge) the last Disney movie to use cels was The Little Mermaid, in 1989.

monster

So awesome.

Swizzle

The end result looks nice, but it seems like a miserable ass-ton of work that could've been automated in a lot of ways. Weird.

Justin Meisse

compared to traditional hand drawn animation - that's not a lot of work, drawing the lines looks about as difficult as drawing some rough first pass keyframes.

Ace-Angel

Swizzle wrote: »

The end result looks nice, but it seems like a miserable ass-ton of work that could've been automated in a lot of ways. Weird.

What are you talking about? 50% of the video is how everything is automated through shaders or vector per point translation, not to mention alot of the work they're showing is literally quick stokes, which seem to be translating pretty well for how dirty they look.

It's looks like what would happen if Flash software could be drawn on a 2D canvas and gets translated in real-time into a 3D environment, with Photoshops layers and Curve strokes to boot.

I mean it sure as hell beats our of drawing cells or using the ludicrous animation tools in those software's, where a single change can take you the entire day.