Was Jibaro Animated Or Live Action? How Love, Death & Robots Made It
Netflix's edgy adult animation anthology Love, Death & Robots utilizes a variety of stunning animation styles, but one of the episodes in the show's third season «Jibaro,» looks like it could be partially live-action — but it's not. Directed by Alberto Mielgo, who previously won an Emmy for an equally stunning episode in Love, Death & Robots volume 1 titled «The Witness,» Jibaro is one of the show's most ambitious episodes, tackling a number of the most difficult aspects of animation to beautiful effect.
«Jibaro» is a reimagining of the classic siren's tale folktale featuring a group of knights who come across a siren covered in gold and jewels whose song and dance drives the knights to their death, other than a single deaf knight who finds himself immune. The knight flees the siren, but she's intrigued and attracted to him because of his immunity, and he's attracted to her for her gold and jewels, but their mutual attraction and selfish greed have a bloody end.
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Due to the hyper realistic movements of all the characters, the textures of water, blood, and the behavior of light, and a multitude of other factors, it almost looks like «Jibaro» is partly live-action, or possibly a mix of animation and motion capture, but the animation was actually done the old fashioned way way, using keyframe animation and matching other reference materials to bring the animated short to life. Obviously the CGI used to generate liquid effects and other aspects is all done using high-end modern technology, but in an interview with Screen Rant, Mielgo said he and his crew actually brought in a choreographer to design the siren's dance and used footage of that performance to match
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