Regarding your response to my post on the Merlin show...I must have misunderstood what you meant earlier and I couldn't agree more!

Regarding your response to my post on the Merlin show...I must have misunderstood what you meant earlier and I couldn't agree more!
Through the use Xerography. In, other words redundant photocopying of various backgrounds and still figures and only drawing the changes. Not trying to sound mean, but given you occupation you should have already known this.
Yes, people really used analog technology at one time.
The first Disney movie to use Computer Generated Animation was actually The Black Hole (check out the cheesy intro sequence to the movie). The first Disney movie to use Computer Generated Imagery was The Black Cauldron and even moreso later with extensive use of CAD and other CGI (imagery) techniques in the Great Mouse Detective.
Just the other day I took a walk through our our warehouse of obsolete A/V presentation and production equipment. I remember only a few years ago when most of it was new. We can't even pay people to take it away. It's too bad HD was not adopted 20 years ago. The technology was there and it was analog too.
What... You did not like (and or see) Ralph Bakshi's version? It was an animated Tour-de-force of rotoscoped goodness from the 1970's? It came out in the theaters. Come on man, you're making me look like a film historian here.
hey redhairs, thanks for the friend request....APPROVED!