The film is a rich, organic and funny piece of urban poetry, making use of candid video, subtly colored animation and stop-motion, playful direct address and suavely chosen music and sonic bridges.
And their film — for it's hard to separate subject from object — is a dense, organic, dazzling and funny tapestry, making use of varied and subtly colored animation and stop-motion; candid video; playfully verbose direct address; chapters and footnotes and doodles; and suavely chosen music and sonic bridges.
This sequence starts with black and white illustrations drawn by Mr. Bendjelloul, then transitions to color animation made by a Swedish company the director employed.
But computers colored the animation drawings in "Lilo and Stitch," digitally aligned them with backgrounds and animated the film's metallic spacecraft.
Cartoonists are also experimenting with color, animation, sound and novel distribution methods.
Even after the color animation comes back from Korea three months later, jokes may be tweaked and scenes rejiggered.
Decades later, there are still games like Wing Commander that boil down to the same thing, albeit with glorious full-color animation.
Since the first Amiga was introduced in 1985, when a memorable demonstration of "Boing," a red and white bouncing ball, showed off the machine's ability to handle color, animation and sound, it has been cherished by its owners.
Still, Mr. Céspedes manages to convey his overriding interests in color, animation, do-it-yourself tinkering and the marvels of visual perception -- and with them, a definite sense of promise.
Mr. Dachis and Mr. Kanarick, childhood friends from Minneapolis, started the company with a signal Web site, called the Blue Dot, which featured a bouncing blue dot on a Web page at a time when designers were using very little color animation online.
For instance, RPGFan called the game a "wonderful visual experience," applauding its use of color, animation, and background.
