While Who Framed Roger Rabbit is credited for breaking the unspoken rule of "never move an animated camera", I think it should go to Frank Tashlin. His cartoons were known for replicating films and this scene from Nasty Quacks being a great example of moving an animated camera.
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While it might not be as impressive as Roger Rabbit, it's undeniable that this was a very daring thing to do in a 7-minute cartoon at the time.
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Some people might call the Tashlin cartoons of the 40's "sloppy", examining them shows that isn't the case. Tashlin in this era was not only experimenting with the character's more angular design but was again doing camera work and shots that looked more like live action films.
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@CrashFan03
I'm mainly referring to shots on the stairs and how you see the characters use them without changing shots.
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@tailorderg
They simply made a perspective background that would pan left to right and animated the characters to make him look like the camera was moving.
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@Gilition
I think they might've meant specifically not to rotate the camera, cause then you'd have to animate the characters and the bg rotating in perspective
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@Gilition
I believe the “don’t move the camera” thing is in reference to specifically putting 2D animated characters into live action, not specifically “animated” cameras. A character needs to be animated at the full 24 fps (on one’s) when s camera/background is moving
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@nemalki
"Nasty Quacks" strikes me as, in general, an underrated Daffy short, so I can definitely get behind this.
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@Gilition
I don't see the camera moving here in a 3-dimensional space ie what the Roger Rabbit quote is referring to, only it panning from side to side....?
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