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The technology is amazing, but rendering lifelike animation seems such an antithesis to what the medium allows. You literally can do anything and for some reason the choice is to constrain it to reality.

The things that Don Hertzfeldt did with line drawings and a vacuum cleaner embrace the medium so much more.





Animation is also called the illusion of life [1], which when done properly always looks better than recreating real life.

But I also get it. It's easy to fall in love with the technology.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Animation%3A_The_Illusi...

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my most memorable animations due to the wild physics-defying reality it creates.

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I was not familiar with Don Hertzfeldt and was doing a little digging and wow, what a unique and creative style.

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