See an early, overalls-free design of Roger (voiced here by Paul Reubens), and a human-cartoon interaction test with a Jessica Rabbit so crudely sketched you'll barely start masturbating to her, in these rarely-seen, decades-old preliminary pencil tests from the 1988 noir-comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The stuttering voice of Pee-wee emerging from Roger isn't so bad, but I don't know about this nascent, thinner design of Bob Hoskins:
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Now that we have digital tools and performance capture, the power to re-create the effects of a 20-year-old movie is at our fingertips. Time to make another sequel to a decades-old film. From MTV:
[W]hen MTV News caught up with director Robert Zemeckis recently, he dropped a news bomb that had our eyes popping cartoon-style out of our sockets. “I’ll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability—the digital tools, performance capture—I’m starting to think about ‘Roger Rabbit,’” he told us.
I have no idea what performance capture would have to do with animating a madcap, intentionally cartoonish, animated rabbit. It sounds like you're planning to ruin things, Robert Zemeckis. Please don't motion capture Tom Hanks to animate Roger Rabbit.
Besides, clearly HD TVs and Blu-ray are the more impressive technologies when talking about a Roger Rabbit sequel. It's going to look so good when I meticulously, frame-by-frame, step through the movie looking for any possible Jessica Rabbit upskirts.
