I hope I'm posting this in the right place. It's no secret that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my favorite movies of all time. I found this old Siskel and Ebert review of the film from 1988. It's really fun to listen to them geek out about it:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40fdj_who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988-siskel_shortfilms
After watching this, I had to pop in the dvd and watch it again for the millionth time. What's crazy is how it still looks so good even today.
The way they animate the camera moves blows my mind!!!
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I remember Andreas Deja speaking about how he made one of his assistants do nothing except trace parts of the live-action footage on his frames so his characters wouldn't slip during complicated camera moves. Some job that must have been. I read about a lot of clean-up people and assistants who said they loved the movie but hated working on it.
But yeah, it's one of my top favourites, too. Beats Space Jam and Looney Tunes Back in Action with one hand tied to its back. The lighting on Roger in that scene where he tells Eddie how laughter is the only weapon he's got still blows my mind.
(As a kid Toon Doom really scared me!)
I'm not even sure we can count Looney Tunes: Back In Action as being in the same league as Roger...
"...No not at any time, only when it was funny!" haha, I love that scene.
There's a part in that video where they talk about how it's supposedly the first feature to be animated completely on 1's. I'm pretty sure that's not true. Most disney stuff looks like a combination on 1's and 2's to me, but I could be wrong. Does anybody know for sure?
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A combination of 1's and 2's isn't completely on one's. I'm not an animation historian, but I think that claim is true. I think by the time Snow White went into production they were using a combo of one's and two's. I can't think of any western feature animated film that was animated on one's before Roger Rabbit.
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Had to be all ones as it was interacting with the live action and camera moves.
and the cartoon at the beginning of the movie? ;)
Still all 1's (I think...)
The whole film was on ones since the animation was interacting with the live action characters.
I believe the animated sequence at the beginning was animated on ones as well.
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