Zemeckis will use Motion Capture for ROGER RABBIT Sequel… Why!?
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- By Venkman
Good Grief. I was excited about the sequel to Roger Rabbit when I heard the original writers came on board to write it, and Robert Zemekis said he would use traditional 2D animation. Now in a recent interview he comes out and says that he is going to use the motion capture technology that he has used for his last three movies, The Polar Express, Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol. The 2D characters will remain in 2D, but the live action characters will be replaced by the 3D motion capture animation. According to Zemekis:
All the other characters that [the cartoons] would sort of have fun with would be magnificent in performance capture technology.
See, I don’t think it would look that magnificent. I think it will take all the magic out of the movie. Here is a real world where cartoons interact with real live people, that’s the magic. If you take the real live people out of the eqation the magic is gone. 2D cartoons interacting with 3D renderings of people just doesn’t seem right. He goes on to say:
I wouldn’t use it for the cartoon characters, because I think they should stay two-dimensional because that’s what — I wouldn’t dimensonalize Roger, and I couldn’t dimensonalize Jessica even if I wanted to because she doesn’t have a nose. We wouldn’t want to give her a nose.
So pretty much the sequel to Roger Rabbit is just going to be a motion capture film with some 2D characters. Zemekis has frustrated me with his motion capture addiction. Why can’t he use real live people for this one? Motion capture won’t work? He is replacing real looking people for fake looking people, why just not use the real people?
What do you think about all this motion capture madness?
Source: MTV
this is worse than the show "Real People"!
Zemekis needs to just stop. Somebody needs to do an intervention on him.
Motion Capture is to Animation what George Lucas is to Prequels.
The Polar Express, Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol look like a hot bowl of dirty ass . Are they even well received ? I can understand the X-mas one becasue its a kids/holiday thing but Beowulf tanked didnt it ? That guy is in love with that set up but its gonna suck for sure .
Umm…no. not…no. not going to work Christmas Carol and Polar Express look fine, that the style, thats what they are, but this…Roger Rabbit is not motion capture.
MoCap = lazy "animators"
Leave Motion Capture to video game cinematics.
Nobody likes the "uncanny valley" in film.
And the only time 3D blended flawlessly with 2D
was The Iron Giant.
Mostly because the 3D was animated traditionally.
Zemekis is going to ruin The Yellow Submarine
with MoCap too.
Its just going to be sad that the animation in The Beatles Rockband
will be superior to Zemekis Motion Crapture.
AGREED.
Hollywood keeps ruining everything from my childhood – can they please just leave this the way it is. Why is there even a sequel on the menu?!
If its entirely moCap its going to be AWFUL. but if its a la king kong or hulk it could be OK – not good mind you but ok. Frak. I hate sequels. With a passion.
I am animator and I feel that Robert Zemeckis is spitting on my art form. Why doesn't he realize that all the movies he has been involved with that uses mocap suck! I agree with the previous post… mocap = lazy animators. There is a whole rant about this on awn.com.
Here's the link if anyone wants to read or join in:
http://www.awn.com/articles/feature/christmas-car...