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The Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) is a proprietary collection of software programs, scanning camera systems, servers, networked computer workstations, and custom desks developed by The Walt Disney Company together with Pixar in the late-1980s. Its purpose was to computerize the ink and paint and post-production processes of traditionally animated feature films produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Image File history File links Information_icon. ...
Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...
The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney; NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...
Pixar Animation Studios is an award-winning American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California (USA). ...
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Post production is the general term for the last stage of film production in which photographed scenes (also called footage) are put together into a complete film. ...
Traditional animation, sometimes also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation, is the oldest and historically the most popular form of animation. ...
Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ...
Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) is the animation studio that makes up a key element of The Walt Disney Company. ...
CAPS was the first digital ink-and-paint system used in animated feature films, designed to replace the expensive process of transferring animated drawings to cels using India ink or xerographic technology, and painting the reverse sides of the cels with gouache paint. Using the CAPS system, enclosed areas and lines could be easily colored in the digital computer environment using an unlimited palette. transparent shading, blended colors and other sophisticated techniques could be extensively used that were not previously available. A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet of plastic (usually acetate) on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. ...
Indian ink (or India ink in American English) is a simple black ink once widely used for writing and printing. ...
Chester F. Carlson Xerography (or Electrophotography) is a photocopying technique developed by Chester Carlson in 1938 and patented on October 6, 1942. ...
Corridor in the Asylum, black chalk and gouache on pink paper by Van Gogh Gouache (from the Italian guazzo, water paint, splash) or Bodycolour (or Bodycolor, the terms preferred by Art historians) is a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water. ...
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The completed digital cels were composited over scanned background paintings and camera and/or pan movements were programmed into a computer exposure sheet simulating the actions of old style animation cameras. Additionally, complex multiplane shots giving a sense of depth were possible. Unlike the analog multiplane camera, the CAPS multiplane cameras were not limited by artwork size. Extensive camera movements never before seen were incorporated into the films. The final version of the sequence was finally composited and recorded onto film. The term scanner has several meanings: In radio, a scanner is a device for searching for and receiving radio broadcasts. ...
The multiplane camera is a special motion picture camera used in the traditional animation process that moves a number of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another. ...
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The first usage of the CAPS process was Mickey standing on the Epcot Sphere for "The Magical World of Disney" titles. It's first feature use was one of the ending rainbow scenes in The Little Mermaid in 1989; the rest of the film used painted cels. Subsequent films were made completely using CAPS; the first of these, The Rescuers Down Under, was the first 100% digital feature film ever produced. The Little Mermaid is a Walt Disney animated film adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Rescuers Down Under is the twenty-ninth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 16, 1990. ...
Since the animation elements exist digitally, it was easy to integrate other types of film and video elements, including three-dimensional computer animation. Sequences from Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame take advantage of the 2D/3D integration. Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ...
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated film, the thirtieth animated feature to be released by the Walt Disney Company. ...
Aladdin (first released on November 11, 1992) is an animated Disney movie telling a version of the story of Aladdin and the magic lamp from The Arabian Nights. ...
The Lion King is the 32nd animated feature in the Disney animated feature canon, and the third highest-grossing animated feature film ever released in the United States. ...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (also known as The Bells of Notre Dame in some countries) is the thirty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ...
For the Special Edition IMAX and DVD versions of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and Mulan, new renders of the original elements were done and recorded to alternate master formats. In addition, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King had newly animated sequences added to their special editions, and both of the IMAX editions and Aladdin had significant cleanup/restoration done on the original digital sequence elements to enhance detail, correct mistakes, and solidify clean-up animation and drawing. IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex, Australia. ...
DVD (sometimes called Digital Versatile Disc, or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
Mulan is the thirty-sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and first released on June 5, 1998 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. ...
In 1992, the team that developed CAPS won an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award. They were[1]: Founded on May 11, 1927 in California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. ...
CAPS was capable of a high-level of image quality using significantly slower computer systems than are available today. The final frames were of a higher resolution (2048 across at a 1.66 aspect ratio) than HDTV, and the artwork was scanned so that it always held 100% resolution in the final output, no matter how complex the camera motion in the shot. Randy Cartwright (born October 31, 1951 in Newport News, Virginia) is an American animator. ...
Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) is the animation studio that makes up a key element of The Walt Disney Company. ...
Projection screen in a home theater, displaying a high-definition television image. ...
In 2004, Disney Feature Animation management decided that audiences wanted only 3D computer animated features and closed down their traditional 2D animation department. The CAPS hardware was dismantled and the custom designed equipment was scrapped. As of 2005, only one desk system remained (and that was only for the purpose of reading the data for the films that were made with this ground-breaking system).
The acquisition of Pixar by Disney in 2006—along with the corresponding influx of artists and management, including Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter—means that the future of traditional, 2D animation at Disney may not yet be decided. Pixar prides itself not only on its world-class 3D skills and knowledge, but many of its artists and managers also pay deep homage to traditional, 2D animation. Since the merger with Pixar, Disney President and CEO Robert Iger has stated that 2D animation will be considered as an option for future, feature-length projects, and Disney director Eric Goldberg has noted that the upcoming film, The Frog Princess, will be created in 2D, however CAPS is now considered outdated, and Disney has recently bought off-the-shelf software which offers an updated, more technically advanced digital animation system for that film. Pixar Animation Studios is an award-winning American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California (USA). ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
John A. Lasseter (born January 12, 1957 in Hollywood, California) is an American animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Feature Animation. ...
Robert Iger Robert A. Iger (born February 10, 1951 in Oceanside, New York) is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. ...
Lead animator of such characters as the Genie in Aladdin and Phil in Hercules. ...
The Frog Princess is an animated film currently in development by Walt Disney Feature Animation. ...
Footnotes - ^ Oscars.org page for the CAPS Sci-Tech Award
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