Proof of Concept

Presentation
Megan Robson
Dissertation The effects of reproducing a 2D Animated
Enquiry film into live action.
  Differences between traditional and digital works – works of art,
music, media, electronics etc.
 Literature adaptation – works of literature that we remade into
movies that the authors were not happy with, for example: The
shining, Mary Poppins etc
Chapter 3  Lion king (2019 remake) – Like for like CGI remake of the original
Case Studies 2D animated 1994 film
 Ghost in a shell (2017) – western live action remake of the
Japanese 1995 animated version
 Full Metal Alchemist (2018) – Japanese Live action remake of the
2009 animated series Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
  The differences between traditional and digital works
o Examples of Traditional and Digital Practices
o How digital loses the meaning that traditional has.
o Digital involves more computerised techniques.
o Traditional as in the work is hand made with natural techniques.
 How this translates into animation
o Traditional is 2D animation
Key Themes o The ‘wood work’ is the hand made animation by the animators, hand
drawn frame by frame
and Issues o Remaking a piece of 2D animation into live action loses all the magic that
2D animation had
 The effects of live action
o The reproduction of the original
o Like for like
o Brings nostalgia to audiences
o A carbon copy / becomes more real that real (impersonating the real)
o Loses some of the stylistic choices the original had
  Walter Benjamin – The work of art in the Age of mechanical
reproduction – The Aura of works of art and how the Mechanical
reproduction devalues them.
Theoretical  Linda Hutcheon - A theory of adaptation – discuses the
frameworks development of creative adaptation, looks into different types of
media adaptation and analyses the differences
and theorists  Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra & Simulation – Discussions around
Simulation and the stages of it’s intensity. The highest level of
simulation removes the distinction between reality and originality
is purely a concept.
  Adaptations : from text to screen, screen to text by Deborah Cartmell
(199:1999) ‘THOU ART TRANSLATED’ Analysing Animated Adaptation – Paul
Wells
 How animated shorts have adapted from literature works
 The work of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
(1935)
 To discuss the differences between Traditional art and Digital reproduction and
how the digital replica loses meaning
 A theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon (2006)
 Discuss levels of adaptation and how they apply to live action remakes

Books  Digital Animation by Andrew Chong (2007)

 Explore the history of digital animation and the developments it’s made
throughout the years
 Animation art by Ryan Ball (2004)
 Why? To pick a collection of works and discuss why the short works well within the
animation medium
 Screen Adaptation by Deborah Cartmell (2010)
 Further discussions of literature adaptation
 Simulacra & Simulation by Jean Baudrillard (1994) [ebook]
 Why? To prove that the realness of live action adaptations becomes a replica of
reality but hold no concept of originality

Figure 1. The Lion King Remake (2019) vs the
Original animated (1994)
-Like for like
-Recycled materials
-Produced exactly the same but in CGI
Key Images
Figure 2. Ghost in a Shell Remake (2017) vs Original Animated
(1995)
- Released in 2017
- Impressive visuals and improved concept
- Was received with mixed reviews
- Lacks certain magic that the original had
 Key Images

Figure 3. Disney Using Rotoscoping for Alice in Wonderland (1951)

- Converting live action into Stylised Animation
- Animated adaptation of the Book
- Later on the animated movie was remade into a live action
- Live action material turned into animation and then later on into a live action
movie
  Analogue artists defying the Digital age O’heagan, S (2011)
 Discussions around certain artists refusing to use digital electronics
and why they prefer to use more traditional methods.

 Is Disney's remake of The Lion King too nostalgic? Child, B (2018)

 Reasons why the Lion king remake may have recycled too much of
the original materials from the remake.

 Full Metal Alchemist Movie Review Shoji, K (2017)

Journal  Japanese Live action of an Animated Tv show fails to entertain fans
due to budget limitations – causes a shortened storyline with lesser
articles characters compared to the original.
 Cowboy Bebop remake: Do we really need Netflix's live action
series? Whithey, J (2018)
 Discussion about the fans worries for the rumoured remake;
discussions around other failed attempts at remaking animated
series into live action movies.
  Brown, B - Analogue vs Digital in Art Online At:
https://www.ehow.com/about_6323970_digital-vs_-analog-
art.html
 Discusses the differences between Analogue and Digital Art

Websites  The Chicago School of Media – Reproduction Online At:

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/reprodu
ction/
 Gives a basic Outline to reproduction in Media
  Ball, R (2004) Animation art London : Flame Tree
 Baudrillard, J (1994) Simulacra & Simulation [Online] At: https://www.e-
reading.club/bookreader.php/144970/Simulacra_and_Simulation.pdf (Accessed: 01/02/2019)
 Bemjamin, W (1935) - The work of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction [Online] At:
http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf
 Brown, B - Analogue vs Digital in Art Online At: https://www.ehow.com/about_6323970_digital-vs_-analog-art.html
(Accessed 02/02/2019)
 Cartmell, D (2010) Screen Adaptation England: Palgrave Macmillan
 Child, B - Is Disney's remake of The Lion King too nostalgic? (2018) Online at:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/28/disney-nostalgia-remake-lion-king (Accessed 02/02/2019)
 Chong, A (2007) - Digital Animation Lausanne: AVA Academia

Bibliography  Hutcheon, L (2006) - A theory of Adaptation London: Routledge

 O’heagan, S - Analogue artists defying the Digital age (2011) Online At:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/apr/24/mavericks-defying-digital-age (Accessed 02/02/2019)
 Shoji, K - Full Metal Alchemist Movie Review (2017) Online At: https://uk.ign.com/articles/2017/11/30/fullmetal-
alchemist-movie-review (Accessed 02/02/2019)
 The Chicago School of Media – Reproduction Online At:
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/reproduction/ (Accessed 02/02/2019)
 Wells, P (1999) - ‘THOU ART TRANSLATED’ in: Deborah Cartmell (ed.) Adaptations : from text to screen, screen to text
[online] At:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OU5cpcFqMgkC&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&dq=analysing+animated+adaptation&sour
ce=bl&ots=YqKiikqrea&sig=ACfU3U3-
CCznsmdX5NX6c4y35YTTyIQmlg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz85bDk6DgAhWOUBUIHSMkCEkQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=on
epage&q=analysing%20animated%20adaptation&f=false (Accessed: 01/02/19)
 Whithey, J - Cowboy Bebop remake: Do we really need Netflix's live action series? (2018) Online At:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cowboy-bebop-remake-netflix-live-action-anime-spike-
spiegel-a8656351.html (Accessed 02/02/2019)
  Figure 1. [Online] At: https://www.thisisinsider.com/live-action-
lion-king-trailer-vs-original-2018-11

Illustrations  Figure 2. [Online] At: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-

vision/ghost-shell-movie-anime-scarlett-johansson-remake-990352
 Figure 3. [Online] At: http://www.dorkly.com/post/80304/disney-
rotoscope