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Undone
2019 · TV series · 23 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg
AnimationScience FictionFantasyDrama
After getting into a near fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.
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> You wouldn’t call the result a painting.
I don't see why not. The backgrounds are painted. Other things that move get outlined first (something painters do all the time on canvas) and then, as you say, are also painted.
These paintings are then composited together to make a single frame, but it's still all just paintings.
You could argue that for it to count each frame would have to be a single painting, but then I'd argue that rotoscoping entire frames of film would also count. Undone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undone_(TV_series)) might count as well. It's rotoscoping placed over oil painted backgrounds.
This really comes down to opinion, and I happen to think there are comparable shows which have aired in the last year (Better Call Saul is as good as, if not better than Breaking Bad in my opinion)
But I think it's silly to argue about that ;) The golden age for you might not be the golden age for me, and most people. Personally, not having to sit through a million ads when I watch TV now makes the TV-watching experience leagues beyond what we had in the late 90s (and sure, we've had some phenomenal shows since Breaking Bad; I'd personally nod at Atlanta, High Maintenance, Maniac, Severance, Game of Thrones S1-5, Undone, and The Expanse)
But we also have access to everything from the 90s and noughts, without the ads and waiting for new episodes
The point I was making in the GP post was that people now have easy access to the long-form storytelling of TV shows, without interruptions and nonstop ads, in a way that didn't exist 10+ years ago. Whether or not you think the TV shows today are better than the ones from the late '90s, people nowadays are choosing watch more TV and less film.
> The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone.
Rotoscoping is the technique. Basically, you film real life and trace over the frames by hand yielding an animated version of your irl footage.