Pencils vs Pixels
Animating dreams, shifting reality.
2023 · 1h 12m · Not Rated Documentary
Overview
A documentary told from the voices of the "second golden age" of animation in the 1990s and 2000s about the rise, fall and rise again of hand-drawn animation. They were trained by animation masters that created the principles of animation, they took animation to heights no one dreamed of - and then came the computer.
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