YouTubeing - The World of Golden Eggs

[David Blair]

pardon, continuing technical tangent.
Toon, cell, they are pretty much the same thing, just used different 
ways. Remembering that the artist is using a 3d model: he/she choses the 
branded implementation in their software, and tweaks it for the look 
they want... 1 color per bounded area, leaving a flat newsprint look, or 
lots of shades of one color per bounded area, giving the look in 
Appleseed. The software for Scanner Darkly was done by a fellow named 
Bob Sabiston, who actually was one of the first to give a cel, or 
whatever you want to call it,  look to 3d, back in the early 90s 
["Grinning Evil Death" I think was the name of his cartoon]. I would 
guess that what he did for Linklater was maybe 2.5D of some kind, but I 
don't know... at least it was mainly automated, not done by hand.

Dean Bowman wrote:
> I think the process in Scanner Darkly is called Rotascoping, and 
> involves painting digitally directly over real footage. Is Toon 
> Shading the same thing as Cell Shading? I thought Appleseed was Cell 
> Shaded, though i'm a bit confused by these terms myself. Sorry for 
> adding two more pieces of jargon to the mix.