“Creative Approaches to the Integration of CGI with Traditional Animation in Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”” by Joshi and Hobbs
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- Creative Approaches to the Integration of CGI with Traditional Animation in Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”
Session/Category Title: Stylization in Animated Films
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Over the years, we have seen the advantages of CGI as a tool to artistically embellish and execute scenes that would be cost prohibitive if done with traditional methods. The task of animating an action adventure feature of epic proportions, as in Disney’s first action-adventure animated feature, “Atlantis: The Lost Empire,” was only feasible by utilizing CGI. However, the challenges of when, how, and how much CG to use became a matter of creative, technical, and production balance. This sketch provides an overview of artistic and technical approaches to blending the two worlds.
