Chapter 1
Magic tricks before the movie theater
Chapter 2
The era of ink and scissors
Chapter 3
Puppets, clay, and limited lines
Chapter 4
The pixels that learned to paint
YOUR GOAL
Master of How to make drawings run away
Ch 4 · The pixels that learned to paint
disney Digital Ink and Paint
Goodbye to the painted cels, we let the pixels color every frame!
disney A classical fresco depicts a glowing actor wired with sensors beside his digital counterpart.
Fun Fact
Toy Story rendering: In 1995, rendering a single frame of Toy Story could take up to thirty hours on supercomputers.
Quiz
What technology maps a physical actor's movements directly onto a digital character model?
Quiz
How many machine-hours of rendering did it take to complete the 1995 film 'Toy Story'?
Quiz
Which actor performed the motion capture for Gollum in the 2001 film 'The Lord of the Rings'?
Quiz
What 2018 film combined 3D computer animation with hand-drawn comic book ink lines and screen-tone dots?
Quiz
How did director Jon Favreau film the digital environments for the 2019 remake of 'The Lion King'?