Waltz with Bashir(2008)
Ari Folman was the writer and David Polonsky was the art directer/illustrator. Folman was in the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon war and began interviewing men he served with to help fill in the gaps in his memory. He was already a documentary filmmaker before he began interviewing therapists, comrades and a tv reporter. He discovered that he had blocked out a Palestinian refugee slaughter by Christian Phalangist gunmen and the Israeli Defence forces did stop them. There was a protest of 400,000 people in Tel Aviv at the time. He decided to use animation for the documentary due to the fact it was using memories, hallucinations nightmares and dreams as source material. There was a total of 8 animators, 4 illustrators, 1 after effects artist and 1 editor used.
It took 4 years to make with a budget around $1.5mil and brought in $2.3 mil at the box office. There was no rotoscoping and Maya was used for specular turning points. The movie switches to real footage at the end to force home the point that it was based on real events.
Tower(2016)
This documentary by filmmakers Keith Maitland and Sarah Wilson covers the 1966 massacre at University of Texas, using animation to recreate the events due to not being able to get permission to film the actual locations. They began production in 2012, interviewing 20 survivors and first responders, narrowing this down to 8 to write the script. They found actors that looked like the survivors at the time of the massacre to act out the interviews. They created a basic film set in their backyard and then rotoscoped over the footage. Post production was used to add in the geographic features.
The actual filming occurred in 2-3day chunks over the span of a year then handed off to the 18 person animation team, who animated 12 frames per second over the next 18 months. There is 14mins of archival footage in the final film. The animators were given reference iPhone photos from the campus so they can match the backyard shot angles.
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