Feature: Animation
31 Dec 2001 | by Lisa Campbell, Editor
As animators strive for ever-more realism in their work, are they losing sight of elements, such as characterisation, which lift the craft above merely reproducing life?
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As animators strive for ever-more realism in their work, are they losing sight of elements, such as characterisation, which lift the craft above merely reproducing life?
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