Moebius does interesting stuff <3 <3 <3 His work is the basis for the "Taarna" story art (the warrior-girl from the aforementioned video.)
The Taarna character in the movie is done with "rotoscoping" which is an early version of today's "motion capture" technique for translating actors' motions to animation. The model (Carole Desbiens) acted out Taarna's scenes, then artists manually traced her frame-by-frame to make the animation. The flying scenes are done in a similar way, with real aerial photography (and miniature landscapes) manually traced as animation frames. Here's a short video showing how that process was done. (2mins 14secs, NSFW minor cartoon-nudity-as-art)
Moar Easter eggs: This Stevie Nicks song was intended for the Belladonna album, but ended up in this movie instead : )
Moebius does interesting stuff <3 <3 <3 His work is the basis for the "Taarna" story art (the warrior-girl from the aforementioned video.)
The Taarna character in the movie is done with "rotoscoping" which is an early version of today's "motion capture" technique for translating actors' motions to animation. The model (Carole Desbiens) acted out Taarna's scenes, then artists manually traced her frame-by-frame to make the animation. The flying scenes are done in a similar way, with real aerial photography manually traced as animation frames. Here's a short video showing how that process was done. (2mins 14secs, NSFW minor cartoon-nudity-as-art)
Moar Easter eggs: This Stevie Nicks song was intended for the Belladonna album, but ended up in this movie instead : )
Moebius does interesting stuff <3 <3 <3 His work is the basis for the "Taarna" story art (the warrior-girl from the aforementioned video.)
The Taarna character in the movie is done with "rotoscoping" which is an early version of today's "motion capture" technique for translating actors' motions to animation. The model (Carole Desbiens) acted out Taarna's scenes, then artists manually traced her frame-by-frame to make the animation. The flying scenes are done in a similar way, with real aerial photography manually traced as animation frames. Here's a short video showing how that process was done. (2mins 14secs, NSFW minor nudity-as-art)
Moar Easter eggs: This Stevie Nicks song was intended for the Belladonna album, but ended up in this movie instead : )