Despite the animation in perspective depicted in this article’s biography, the two-dimensional characters needed to convince the audience that they lived in a three-dimensional environment. However, other elements helped “Roger Rabbit” to differ from previous films. The visual contact between the real actors and the animated characters was essential for the integration of the illusion. Still of scene of the film “Mary Poppins”. There wasn’t really a connection between the two parts, and the illusion does not sustain. And for a very simple reason: the eye line of the actors crossed the animated characters. However the film did not succeed with the direct interaction among the actors with the animated characters. The film was groundbreaking in the use of techniques such as rotoscopy - defined by the Animated Dictionary of LabJor FAAP as an “animation made on top of a reference recorded in live action”. Take Mary Poppins (1964, Walt Disney Productions) as an example. Other attempts to mix reality with animation had already been made before, but none hit Roger Rabbit’s degree of excellence and efficiency. The film explored the topic with such high level of perfection that I still await for another film that combines the elements of live-action and animation in such effective and legit way as this. Its intention had instant effect on me: I did not believe that the animated characters weren’t real. It is because of Who Framed Roger Rabbit that I am so fascinated for techniques in visual effects. When I was reintroduced to the film in my animation classes in college, a heat rose in my spine when I finally understood the mechanism of production and to realize that it was, in fact, possible to make such a bald film such as this. I frequently watched the making of the film that came with the DVD, but I didn’t understand none of the technical parts and the material barely hit the surface of the production. And this passion grew even bigger when I discovered that Richard Williams had been the director of animation, and that he was a main reference as well in the industry as in my History of Animation classes. I was completely hallucinated by this film in my childhood. I must have watched Roger Rabbit more than a hundred times. I would go to the living room and EVERY TIME I’d watch the same films: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Touchstone Pictures), by Henry Selick, or Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Touchstone Pictures), by Robert Zemeckis. I always woke up early, usually I was the only person awaken in the apartment at 7 a.m. When I was a kid, I used to sleepover at my aunt’s house on the nights of Saturday to Sunday.
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