As Cartoons Go Digital, Something Gets Lost

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

When Disney restores an animated film, it has artists inspect it frame by frame. Other studios aren’t so meticulous and rely on digital tools designed for live-action films. From As Cartoons Go Digital, Something Gets Lost:

The technology at issue — called “digital noise reduction,” or DNR — works by removing lines that appear in one frame of a film but not the next, reasoning that the line doesn’t belong. In live-action films, that usually works well. But in cartoons, the process gets sketchier.

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