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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by iainmerrick on Friday June 09, 2023 @06:40AM (#36255883)
Right, it's almost entirely rotoscoping. I don't think that makes it intrinsically bad or less worthy -- e.g. "A Scanner Darkly" is rotoscoped and I thought that was terrific.

But in this case I totally agree, they didn't add anything beyond the one big gimmick.

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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by Hoasi on Friday June 09, 2023 @08:41AM (#36256994)
It's all about the story. Does the style used serves the story?

It would be much simpler to experiment with such a film about Van Gogh today with the help of machine learning. But the story has to live up to the visuals. Art and story must complement each other in a way that makes the style use undeniable, not just a gimmick.

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