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102 Dalmatians
2000 · Film · 100 min
Part of 101 Dalmatians (Live-Action) Collection
Directed by Kevin Lima
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who thinks he's a Rottweiler - teams up with Oddball - an un-marked Dalmatian puppy eager to earn her spots! Together they embark on a laugh-packed quest to outwit the ever-scheming Cruella De Vil.
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The live-action sequel of the 101 Dalmatians live-action movie, (102 Dalmatians) also had a bizarre scene in the end where Cruella is baked into an enormous cake. She is mixed in a huge batter, baked alive (she survives, only the cake around here is baked) and blasted with frosting, all by the smart dogs working together. As a kid I remember it being pretty other-wordly.
Reminded me of this, by JP Lewis in 2001
Lifting Detail from Darkness
http://www.scribblethink.org/Work/Talks/dalmatian.pdf
This application sketch describes a high quality method for separating detail from overall image region intensity. This intensity-detail decomposition can be used to automate some specialized image alteration tasks. Our work was motivated by the movie 102 Dalmatians, which featured a dalmatian puppy without spots. Animal handlers determined that the obvious idea of applying makeup to the dog was not possible – evidently there was no suitable makeup that was both safe to the dogs and that would stay in place during normal dog activity (including licking). This left Disney TSL with the task of painting out all the spots on the dog every few frames (the paintings were carried for a few frames with a simple scheme). The spot removal task was larger than anyone guessed, and ultimately required a large number of artists (up to 40) working for eight months. The problem also proved to be more difficult than expected from an algorithmic point of view. As the spots often had visible fur texture, initially it was believed that there must be some simple compositing technique that could lighten these spots.