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Calluna · Last edited by Calluna on Mon May 03, 2010 2:55 pm; edited 2 times in total

Not sure if anyone else saw, but Eric Goldberg (Genie's head animator) had a letter in this week's Time:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1118345-3,00.html
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Hourglass · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject:

Well, as long as he says he'll keep with hand drawing... then I don't mind about him playing around with the thought of CGI.

But, Genie as a CGI character, puh-leez. Laughing

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persian85033 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject:

What's a CGI character? I thought that Genie was hand drawn.
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Hourglass · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject:

persian85033 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject:

Of course it wouldn't be right. I really can't see Genie like that. I hate those computer movies like toy story and all that. I like the animated ones better.
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AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

Nez · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject:

Also, The Cave of Wonders head was CGI, but Eric provided 2D references for it.

As some might suggest, the one can not live without the other. 2D animators cannot go without knowing 3D and vice versa.
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Calluna · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject:

Oh, see I thought he was talking about that Genie he made for that exhibit in Disneyland in Tokyo (or somewhere over there) and then the 3-D characters in the commercial in general. Him talking about both would make more sense, though Laughing

Hourglass · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah, but Carpet is not a CGI character Laughing

. The CoW is, but the only thing CGI on Carpet is his design. He's still a 2-D character; those lines we see are not created on the computer.

But this is also why if they did make Carpet completely CGI, you really cannot tell unless you look at the tassels, or have a tassel fetish Laughing

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Hourglass · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject:

Merkal · Sultan Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 466 Location: NL

Yes I believe Carpet was the first use of CGI combined with handdrawn animation. Before the crews only used it for backgrounds like the ballroom in Beauty or the inside of Big Ben in Basil.

Syera · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject:

I'm quite certain the tassels were hand-drawn. The only part of Carpet that was CGI was the pattern - this being because all that detail would have been much, much, much too darned difficult to do by hand.
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AladdinsGenie · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject: