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The Evolution in Motion Capture on
THE JUNGLE BOOK
and Beyond
by Richard Lightstone CAS AMPS
In 1937, Walt Disney began experimenting with methods to realistically por-
tray characters in the movie Snow White. They adopted a technique called
rotoscoping, invented earlier by Max Fleischer, where individual frames of
movie film were traced onto animation cells as a means of speeding up the
animation process.
