6.6K reactions · 520 shares |  Fact: Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) uniquely combined hand-drawn animation with live-action footage, a technique supervised by director Hiroaki Yoshida. The animated cockroach characters were composited directly over filmed human environments using optical printing, which required animators to match perspective, lighting, and motion by hand—an especially demanding process before the era of digital compositing. | Hoenest | Facebook