Duncan Jones on Creating Animated 'Rogue Trooper' With a Hybrid Pipeline and Indie Budget
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Carole Horst
Summary
Director Duncan Jones discusses the making of his animated feature 'Rogue Trooper,' adapted from the 2000 AD comic. The film was produced on an indie budget using a hybrid animation pipeline that blends Unreal Engine real-time rendering with traditional hand-drawn animation. Jones emphasizes that no AI was used in the film's production. The article covers the voice cast assembled during the SAG strike, the technical challenges of the hybrid approach, and how the team managed to create a visually ambitious project with limited resources.
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VarietyDuncan Jones on Creating Animated 'Rogue Trooper' With a Hybrid Pipeline and Indie Budgetvariety.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledThere's AI — the film has no AI.
We were actually really fortunate, for want of a better word, that when we were shooting, it was at the time when the SAG strike was happening, and obviously a big point of contention at that point was concerns for...
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