The Lion King, Hand-Drawn Animation, and the Problem With Photo-Realism

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Ahead of TheLionKing's debut, animation experts weigh in on the pitfalls of photo-realism

for example, Scar doesn’t look very different from any other lion. Instead of wicked expressions and menacing movement, his villainy is denoted by the fact that he mostly stands in shadows. Another example: when Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa sing “Hakuna Matata” together in the new film, there’s no over-the-top expression or comedy, no jovial vine-swinging or physically impossible but enjoyably goofy wave-surfing.

It’s extraordinary work in and of itself, the new film’s ability to render a near-perfect imitation of something from the real world. “The problem is, how do you make a handcrafteda professor at CalArts, in a separate interview.

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