Tangential quarter-century-old gripe:
I always thought that the human/toon interactions in Who Framed Roger Rabbit seemed way more convincing than the ones in Space Jam even though the latter filmmakers (like the new web designers) had much more advanced technology at their disposal.
Case in point: I can believe that Bob Hoskins is making eye contact with Roger.
Michael Jordan and Bugs? Not so much.
Part of this is because Hoskins was a trained actor and Jordan wasn’t, but I think a lot of it also had to do with a low-tech trick that they used to film Roger Rabbit: before shooting the footage that went into the final movie they had the actors do a run-through of each shot with life-size dummies standing in for the cartoon characters. That gave everyone a point of reference to work from so they didn’t have to guess where the characters were going to be or try to do the whole scene talking to a ball on a stick.
Lesson: better technology doesn’t always yield better results.
