“The Magician and the Rabbit” by Creature House Ltd.
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1999 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1999:
Title:
- The Magician and the Rabbit
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Creature House Ltd.
Description:
Where would a magic show be without a rabbit? This is the story of how a rabbit of humble origins made it to the magician’s profession.
Despite its traditional media appearance, the animation was created entirely using a new vector-based animation system: LivingCels. All the keyframes were digitally drawn within LivingCels, which also generates in-betweens automatically. No ink-and-paint or scanning was involved in the animation process.
The system uses an efficient vector-paint technology (an extension to the skeletal-strokes technique) for creation of key drawings and rendering of the generated frames. Together with other features of the system (automatic object correspondence, hierarchical animation, and picture-based models), stylish cel animations that are resolution- and frame-rate-independent can be created efficiently. Smoothly interpolated action with motion blurring is easily achievable from hand-drawn keyframes.
Software:
LivingCels
Additional Contributors:
Director/Producer: S.C.Hsu
Original Music Composition and Performance: Irene Lee
