Even when rotoscoping tends to be a somewhat divisive
technique among animators (To the point some of them don't even want to consider it "real" animation), I personally think that it could be done pretty well, often with pretty stylish results. Take for example movies like Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, or Bakshi's American Pop.
Hey, even some beloved Disney classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs used rotoscoping, so I never got the hate towards this type of visual presentation.
I guess some would say shorts like this one could have been easily made in live-action, with its animation being just a gimmick. But even if that was the case, I think the gimmick worked, because it managed to capture my attention from the very first moment despite the ambiguous nature of the story, giving it a certain hypnotic film from beginning to end.
Hey, even some beloved Disney classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs used rotoscoping, so I never got the hate towards this type of visual presentation.
I guess some would say shorts like this one could have been easily made in live-action, with its animation being just a gimmick. But even if that was the case, I think the gimmick worked, because it managed to capture my attention from the very first moment despite the ambiguous nature of the story, giving it a certain hypnotic film from beginning to end.