In animated film-making (and I'm sure it still must be the case with digital animation today), creators would often film actors saying the script and "acting" a scene, and then illustrators would use their mannerisms and movements as inspiration for their drawings. What's amazing here is that what the actors in the test footage actually voiced the characters themselves; the animated characters capture and exaggerate the essence of the real-life actors, who seemed pretty larger-than-life themselves. Old classics in a new light, pretty cool!
The Murder That May Have Inspired Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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*The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde* can be just a scary yarn about
a monster or a deep philosophical exploration. Robert Louis Stevenson's
tale l...