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匿名ユーザーからの質問: Where are you?! Why is your Twitter dead?
Hi, I’m here!
That’s because I had difficulty tweeting in French and English even though I created my account to write in these languages…
It is still difficult, but I’ll come back to Twitter sometime soon.
Thank you for asking and giving me a good opportunity :)
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And as much as I loved Tangled – and I feel like we’re in a golden age right now with CG – all the studios today are competing with a stylized form of realism. I have to believe that’s not the only way that animation can look. I feel like 2D needs to come into the place where it can compete with a big blockbuster movie that has tons of cg and so forth. We have to push the processes and techniques and see where we can take them.
— Exclusive “Paperman” Interview with Director John Kahrs | Cartoon Brew
出典: cartoonbrew.com
John Kahrs: It really came out of working so much with Glen on Tangled. Seeing all that drawing, being at Disney, being surrounded by that legacy. How exciting, and how much punch there is in the drawn line, how expressive it can be. And how hard the CG guys have to work to try to match that charm. I thought, Why do we have to leave these drawings behind? Why can’t we bring them back up to the front of the image again? Is there a way that CG can kinda carry along the hand drawn line in a way that we haven’t done before?
— Exclusive “Paperman” Interview with Director John Kahrs | Cartoon Brew
出典: cartoonbrew.com
If the filmmakers had made Paperman without the hybrid technology, it might still be a sweet story — but the appeal of animation is as much about the technique as it is the tale. “If this short had come out with The Little Mermaid, everyone would be excited about the CG,” says Reed with a laugh. “Now here we are in the early part of this millennium, and what we’re celebrating is going back to the handcraft.”
— ‘Paperman’ short to play before 'Wreck it Ralph’ | Inside Movies | EW.com
While the story is tinged with nostalgia, the film is trying to stretch the limits of what old-time animation can accomplish. “As exciting a time that we live in right now, with so many CG features being done, that kind of stylized photo-realism can’t be the only way that animation can look,” says Kahrs. “And I also think it’s okay to push on 2-D. The time has come to see what the future can be for that, too.”
If Paperman strikes a nerve with audiences, Reed says it’s “up to the next batch of artists” to figure out whether this style and programs such as Meander can bring about a renaissance for 2-D animation. “CG has stomped to the forefront, and completely owns the space of the photo-real image and all the surrounding area around that,” she says. “Paperman is, for us, a part of the larger conversation: ‘How can visuals look — other than moving slowly, more and more, toward photo-real?’”
— ‘Paperman’ short to play before 'Wreck it Ralph’ | Inside Movies | EW.com
野口：『ナキ』では背景表現にミニチュアを多用しましたよね。CG ではなく、あえてミニチュアを使うことで制作期間を短くできたと別のインタビューでコメントされているのを拝見しました。ミニチュアを使うというアプローチも、白組さん特有のやり方だなと感じています。
八木：「ミニチュアをつくる方が逆に大変なんじゃないか」っていってくれる人も結構いらっしゃるんですよね（笑）。でも、ミニチュアと同レベルの情報量をもった CG をつくっていたら、もっと時間がかかってしまうと思いますね。背景は世界観や表現スタイルを決める大切な要素です。それを全部 CG でつくろうとすると、なまじ何度でも改変できてしまうがゆえに、どこに落ち着かせれば良いのか決められないと思うのです。
野口：目の前に実在するミニチュアこそがゴールだと決めて撮影して、そこに CG を合わせたと？
八木：そうです。例えば、毛先がピピンと飛び出ている、よじった紐を CG で表現しようとすると凄く手間がかかりますよね。でも、ミニチュアなら手近な紐を使って簡単につくれるわけです。しかも当たり前ですけど、フル GI（※3） ですよね。カメラに撮影するだけで、説得力のある質感の背景が表現できる。ミニチュアを使うことで、ショートカットできるものは多いような気がするのですよ。今後もミニチュアは使っていきたいですね。
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The Meander program, created by Disney software engineer Brian Whited, allows the 2-D hand-drawn artwork to “stick” to the dimensional CG layer underneath.
— ‘Paperman’ short to play before 'Wreck it Ralph’ | Inside Movies | EW.com
The footage in Paperman was then passed back and forth between the 2-D and CG animation teams as they fine-tuned the look of the film — often to ensure it never looked too fine-tuned. “When the line artists would find a more pleasing silhouette, or a better method of expression, we would go back and push the CG into that shape,” says producer Kristina Reed (a former DreamWorks Animation production executive on such films as Madagascar and Over the Hedge.) Other times, she adds, Kahrs would say, “‘It looks too CG right now,’ and want to knock it back.”
— ‘Paperman’ short to play before 'Wreck it Ralph’ | Inside Movies | EW.com