History Of Animation <Tab/>In 1930, animators Hugh Harmon, Isadore Freleng and Rudolf Ising signed a contract with Warner Bros. to create a cartoon series called "Loony Tunes". The main character of the show was a guy named Bosko, and while he continued to be popular, he was never quite the same as Disney's Mickey Mouse. During the next few years, through "Foxy" and "Merry Melodies", the studio suffered a serious decline …showed first 75 words of 1452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1452 total…just be moving stripes of color. At this point, the film would be passed through a light diffuser and simultaneously be re-exposed over the original image. Now when the film was played back, it gave a more genuine illusion of a lightsaber. Although it made the movie a huge success, this method of rotoscoping the lightsaber was fairly crude. > -Full credit for this essay must go to Y. Hirschhorn and www.cheathouse.com