Animation Appreciation Thread #19

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Appreciate sakuga fall pls

>>388

I think he means scenes shot with a multi-plane camera, not background animation. Disney films used the multi-plane camera extensively. I actually really like the effect that you achieve with that. It's almost as good as background animation. Actually even better at moments, purely because you get an illusion of 3-dimensional movement with the level of detail of background art.

And it's so strange that the method is not used more often nowadays when you have the advantage of digital layers. You don't have to move huge glass panels around anymore. And yet, the technique is somehow lost and only gets seldom use. Can't even blame it on CGI backgrounds or anything (and since I'm on this subject, I actually prefer multi-plane scenes to actual 3D backgrounds because the character is much better integrated in the layout that way, since every component is still two dimensional). People really seem to have forgotten that multi-plane exists.

A shame...