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MADNESS, MAYHEM AND DIGITAL MANIPULATION

The unique ability of CGI to portray any angle and any perspective in each scene effectively supports an underline theme for madness. This is most prevalent in the film Paprika where the sets are so obscured that to successfully represent it without animation would be extremely difficult. This is because the film is a combination of a realistic world like our own and a dream world but these two realms end up merging and crossing over one another. Animation makes such things possible while the new advances in CGI help make it more realistic and interesting. There are certain aspects of CGI in Paprika such as the confetti scene with the parade or a simple reflection in a rain puddle that are subtle additions which the viewer wouldn’t necessarily pick up as advanced CGI programming.