From the course: Animating in Historical Styles

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1920s: Post production

1920s: Post production

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1920s: Post production

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- [Instructor] When we look at these cartoons today, they're often in really bad condition. The film is scratched, it wobbles, flickers, but remember that this is the result of decades of wear and tear. When most of these were seen for the first time as clean prints, these defects didn't exist. By adding the defects, we can artificially add or distress the animation to make it look as though it was created in the '20s or the '30s. The simplest effect is the flicker. When I add the flicker here, now you can see it starting to feel like it's a piece of film going through and it's not quite playing right. By varying the light of the shot every few frames, we create the effect of an antique film projector. In this pass, I've added scratches, you can see these vertical black lines moving across the screen and various dots and white spots and dark spots popping in. And that's the result of again, age and weathering and…

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