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The deceptively simple-looking “Ghost Cat Anzu” is actually idiosyncratically drawn from live-action frames in a rotoscoping process.

Kuno normally makes animated films without rotoscoping, “so it was a very wonderful experience for me. I realized that the performances of actors were really rich. Normally, I’m just creating characters inside my head, but in this case, I could rely on the actors.”

It meant visual effects had to do a lot more rotoscoping, match-moves and camera tracking, but in doing so, it gave the team the ability to tightly control character performance.

Each section has a wildly different look, from computer animation to CGI to rotoscoping to live-action stick puppets and actors.

This isn’t the first time he has used animation layered over live performances, and this digital rotoscoping technique is especially attuned to nuances of gesture and facial expression.