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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.misc
Subject: Re: CAA in 'Who framed Roger Rabbit'?
Message-ID: <1853@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 89 16:58:56 GMT
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In article <938@taurus.BITNET> <shani%TAURUS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> writes:
>
>As far as I know, no computer graphics (i.e ray tracing, etc.)
>was used!!
>
>I guees they did use computerized editing boards and the usual overprinting
>methods...

I heard the ray tracing was used to develop all the shadows.  Look at the
shadows under the characters and try to figure a better way to get that
sort of realism.  You couldn't paint it in, and you couldn't use a gobo on
the backlight because you'd have to have the animation before the scene
was shot, and then you'd have to sync it, and it's much, much easier to
sync the animation to the live action.

Then again, shadows on cartoons look stupid.  Look at the Goofy ad for
Diet Coke sometime.  Pathetic.

				--Blair
				  "Betcha didn't know I live at
				   five frames per second...damned
				   Japanese animators!"