Hand-Drawn: Documentary
An indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in the digital era. Featuring insights and anecdotes by hand-drawn animation artists from around the world.
Pencils vs Pixels
Animating dreams, shifting reality.
A documentary told from the voices of the "second golden age" of animation in the 1990s and 2000s about the rise, fall and rise again of hand-drawn animation. They were trained by animation masters that created the principles of animation, they took animation to heights no one dreamed of - and then came the computer.
Top Billed Cast
Ming-Na Wen Self - Narrator (voice)
Seth MacFarlane Self
Alex Hirsch Self
Floyd Norman Self
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