• Tar_Alcaran
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    Rotoscoping the when they draw over film. It’s a way to add special effects to live action, or the make animation.

    This is a different technique, chroma-key compositing (blue screen back then, green screen now). One of the downsides of the technique is that it does much better when you really light up the foreground object to create contrast with the blue screen. And that tends to cause weird effects compared to the background (because you have to light them from the side). And you obviously can’t light up the background film like that because it’s 1967 and you’d have to borrow a dozen aircraft spotlights to do it.