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Article: Blurring the lines: new hybrid forms of live action and animation challenge Oscar's youngest category.(STATE OF THE ART)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 7, 2007
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For most of the history of cinema, it was easy to understand what was animated and what wasn't. Animation was made by people slaving away for months, creating the illusion of movement one frame at a time, either with pen and ink or with stop-motion puppets. There were films that mixed live-action and animation, such as "Anchors Aweigh" and "Song of the South," but they were rare.
With computer generated imagery, the results began to look different and became harder to define. Nowadays, even experts can't always agree on what qualifies as an animated feature. Some of today's best animation happens in "live-action" films, like "Spider-Man 3," and looks as real as ...