The Making of Astro Boy

Astro Boy has just successfully navigated the rocky transition from ink to 3D with his new feature film, and CGSoceity talks to Director David Bowers about some of the unique challenges they faced in bringing a classic animated character to 3D.

“When you put him into 3D and turn his head, one of those horns will disappear and he doesn’t look like Astro Boy anymore.” The cheat they used was to occasionally switch the horn from the left to the right side depending on the location of the camera. “It’s a nod to the way he’s always been portrayed. I think it’s important that Astro Boy has the iconic two point shape.”

via CGSociety – ASTROBOY.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .