Adding Line Drawings to Computer Animation Make Disney's 'Paperman' Short Pop
A collection of Disney shorts played on Netflix last month, and before each was a DVD-like easter egg: interviews with the animators.
This viewer was surprised to learn two-dimensional line drawings enhance the theme and texture of love story CG short "Paperman."
Why would lines make this film ... more? We love the sound of this flat medium.
It won Disney the 2012 Oscar for Best Animated Short.
"Paperman"'s head of animation, Patrick Osborn, and producer Kristina Reed:
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This viewer was surprised to learn two-dimensional line drawings enhance the theme and texture of love story CG short "Paperman."
Why would lines make this film ... more? We love the sound of this flat medium.
It won Disney the 2012 Oscar for Best Animated Short.
"Paperman"'s head of animation, Patrick Osborn, and producer Kristina Reed:
PATRICK OSBORN: "Paperman" looks a little bit different than most CG animation. John Kahrs, the director, was inspired by coming to Disney as the head of animation on "Tangled" and seeing all of the hand-drawn artwork around all the line work, all the design.
And thinking, "could we get some of that into our CG animation somehow?"
KRISTINA REED: What's incredible to me how the experiments you and Jeff (Turley) were doing, and the line work that John was falling in love with, came together to make a look that really supported the story.
And it just was this incredible kismet of two different techniques, that just ... lived together so beautifully in this short.
PATRICK OSBORNE: Here's "Paperman." Enjoy it.
This work by AJ Fish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
