With Amazon Prime Video’s “Undone,” TV has its own version of “A Scanner Darkly” and “Waking Life,” but its a work that is far more advanced in its use of rotoscope animation for trippy storytelling. The latest series from “BoJack Horseman” producers Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg examines perception, reality, and existence in a fantastical journey through space and time.
In “Undone,” an auto accident upends the life of Alma (Rosa Salazar), who begins questioning reality when she’s visited by the spirit of her late father, Jacob (Bob Odenkirk), who asks her to help solve the mystery of his death with her mind-bending abilities. Funny thing, though: the series wasn’t supposed to be animated until Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing signed on to direct. Hulsing was a rotoscope expert, dabbling with the technique of tracing over live-action footage frame-by-frame on his award-winning shorts “Junkyard,” “Seventeen,” and HBO’s Emmy-nominated documentary,...
In “Undone,” an auto accident upends the life of Alma (Rosa Salazar), who begins questioning reality when she’s visited by the spirit of her late father, Jacob (Bob Odenkirk), who asks her to help solve the mystery of his death with her mind-bending abilities. Funny thing, though: the series wasn’t supposed to be animated until Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing signed on to direct. Hulsing was a rotoscope expert, dabbling with the technique of tracing over live-action footage frame-by-frame on his award-winning shorts “Junkyard,” “Seventeen,” and HBO’s Emmy-nominated documentary,...
- 6/17/2020
- by Bill Desowitz
- Thompson on Hollywood
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