Remember Jessica Rabbit? She is the sultry human cartoon wife of Roger Rabbit in the 1988 Academy-Award winning film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The movie mixed action with animation to create a marvelous "toon" universe.
Jessica Rabbit was "untooned" and made to look lifelike and the result is pretty impressive.
"I was able to complete the face relatively quickly but the real challenge was everything from her neck down," the designer says of the untooning process. "Trying to piece together parts of a body from multiple photos on top of a highly disproportionate body was pretty difficult. I considered only doing the face but I predicted pitchforks and torches if I chose that route."
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What's Driving This Trend
- Untooning
- The trend of untooning popular cartoon characters and making them look lifelike presents disruptive innovation opportunities in the field of character design and animation.
- Hybrid Animation
- The trend of combining live-action and animation, as seen in movies like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', opens up opportunities for disruptive innovation in the entertainment industry.
- Photo Manipulation
- The trend of digitally manipulating photos to create realistic representations of cartoon characters offers disruptive innovation opportunities in the realm of digital art and graphic design.
Who This Affects Most
- Character Design
- The character design industry can benefit from the trend of untooning as it allows artists to explore new ways of creating lifelike characters by merging cartoonish features with real human-like imagery.
- Animation
- The animation industry can leverage the trend of hybrid animation to create unique and visually stunning content that combines live-action performances with animated characters.
- Digital Art
- The field of digital art can explore the trend of photo manipulation to push the boundaries of creativity and create captivating and realistic illustrations by transforming cartoon characters into humanized versions.
