The idea for animated films was born from the stop-motion techniques being used in live-action films such as J. Stuart Blackton's The Enchanted Drawing, which eventually became their own pseudo-animation films.
The film is notable for its extensive use of rotoscoping, a technique in which scenes are first shot in live-action, then traced onto animation cels.
For all the promotion of digital animation as a solve-anything technique for creating a new magical realism, the fact is that much digital animation in live-action movies looks phony.
Their faces and bodies, for instance, are outlined in black, but their faces are so ductile and expressive that I was surprised that they hadn't been rotoscoped (the animation technique in which live-action movement is traced over).
To play up the psychedelic effect, the show makes use of rotoscoping, a technique in which live-action footage is traced over, frame by frame, by animators.
Most of the film's crowd and battle scenes use a different technique, in which live-action footage is posterized to produce a more three-dimensional look.
In live action, it appeared Cavic won.
You can see the app in live action here.
Whereas in live action, you push a button and whoosh!
This is all the language you have in live action.
