Servaisgraphy
The servaisgraphy is - according to the definition of its author, the Belgian scenario writer Raoul Servais - “a system of faking allowing on the one hand to the Incrustation characters filmed in real sights in decorations of graphic design and, on the other hand, a system increasing the quality of these decorations”.
History
A little hard research undertaken for the short film Harpya (1979) contributed to the settling of this process, faster. The scenario writer planned to use it for the totality of his feature-length film Taxandria (1994), but the rise of digital technologies in the interval led it to make of it only one partial use for this film. In fact its short film Moths (1998) is the only cartoon film entirely made in this way. The advent of the Infographie made the process obsolete.
Technique
The servaisgraphy consists in filming characters in a studio painted in white and on film white and black. The images are then printed on sheets of Cellophane, then colored with the back, as for a Cartoon. They are then filmed again, this time in front of the suitable decorations.
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