| CG on the left and Paper Cut-Out on the Right |
On August 5, 2016 Netflix released their original film "The Little Prince". Adapted from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s popular 1943 novella “The Little Prince”, this film received rave reviews with 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.8/10 IMDB. The reason this film received such critical acclaim was it's seamless integration of CG Animation and Paper Cutout Animation into the same film.
CG Animation is the style of animation which has made large studios such as Pixar and DreamWorks so famous. This style requires painstaking effort in order to animate just one frame, to which there are about 24 per second, within the film. The level of detail that goes into the background, characters, dialogue, etc. accounts for how films such as Disney's "Frozen" takes so long to make. For example, an article on Bennet.com stated how for one scene alone, due to "its complexity, the scene took 4,000 computers over 30 hours to render each and every frame."
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Paper Cutout Animation is instead actually filmed using paper figures and stop-motion animation. these scenes require physically creating a set compared to digitally designing one. Paper Cutout Animation is incredibly difficult in it's own right since if one part of a scene is decide to be changed, the entire scene must be changed to account for that.
References
Pictures:
1) https://resizing.flixster.com/_qcN2zw4SFl6lZwek4EQMYKhFQ8=/206x305/v1.bTsxMjE5OTU0MTtqOzE3MDYxOzEyMDA7NzI5OzEwODA
2)http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/9874/713722_048.jpg
3)http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/movies/how-the-little-prince-came-to-animated-life.html?_r=0
Content:
1)http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/movies/how-the-little-prince-came-to-animated-life.html?_r=0
2)http://multimediamcc.com/old-students/ashaver/3d_process.html
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| Paper Cut-Out Animation |
Paper Cutout Animation is instead actually filmed using paper figures and stop-motion animation. these scenes require physically creating a set compared to digitally designing one. Paper Cutout Animation is incredibly difficult in it's own right since if one part of a scene is decide to be changed, the entire scene must be changed to account for that.
'The Little Prince" uses this disparity to it's advantage by creating two different "worlds" within the film-- one in CG and one with paper cut-outs. However, if it weren't for computers, we would not be able to do CG animation and instead this film would be one dimensional. As a result, "The Little Prince" serves as a perfect example for how computers and CG Animation open up a whole new world of opportunities in the film industry.
References
Pictures:
1) https://resizing.flixster.com/_qcN2zw4SFl6lZwek4EQMYKhFQ8=/206x305/v1.bTsxMjE5OTU0MTtqOzE3MDYxOzEyMDA7NzI5OzEwODA
2)http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/9874/713722_048.jpg
3)http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/movies/how-the-little-prince-came-to-animated-life.html?_r=0
Content:
1)http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/movies/how-the-little-prince-came-to-animated-life.html?_r=0
2)http://multimediamcc.com/old-students/ashaver/3d_process.html
I found this really interesting--I've heard of claymation, which sounds like a similar process and result, but never paper animation in movies. Were the CG and paper animation scenes used simultaneously, or were they entirely different facets of the movie?
ReplyDeleteWhen the main characters were talking and interacting the movie would use CG animation. When they would tell stories about the Little Prince it would switch to paper cut-out animation. Therefore, they were used separately to create a distinct difference between the worlds of the main characters and the Little Prince.
DeleteVery interesting blog. I saw that on Netflix and never watched it but definitely will now! I wonder is paper cut-out animation is common at all because I've never heard of it before.
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