The series also stars Constance Marie as Alma's mother Camila, and Angelique Cabral as Alma’s sister Becca, who, as it is revealed in this new season, can also time travel. But Alma’s newfound ability is more of a weighted responsibility than a fun discovery, as she’s frequently visited by her deceased father (Bob Odenkirk) who aims to train Alma in the ways of time travel so she can discover who murdered him and even save his life. Premiering its anxiously awaited Season 2 today on Prime Video, Undone stars Alita: Battle Angel’s Rosa Salazar as Alma, a woman badly injured in a car accident who afterward discovers that she can travel through time. He said, ‘You get the best of both worlds.’”
So, when Hisko Hulsing came in as our director, he suggested rotoscoping. You don't even have a performer in there, embodying the space and embodying the character. And with traditional animation, you are limited in terms of character expression, or you have to tell the animators exactly how the characters should be moving. With live-action, when you went to these magical realms or traveled through time, you would feel that shift with the CGI animation. “We kept feeling like both ways had limitations. “When we were writing the first couple of episodes, we actually didn't know if the series would be live-action or animation,” says Purdy, who was a writer and producer on Bob-Waksberg’s critically acclaimed animated series, BoJack Horseman. It offers filmmakers the chance, in a sense, to have their cake and eat it too, harnessing the abstract, fantastical creative advantages of animation while capturing detailed, believable performances from real actors.įor Undone writers and co-creators Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy, it was really the only option. Rotoscope - tracing over films footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action - is a powerful animation tool that storytellers have been using for decades, whether with kid-focused films like Thumbelina and Anastasia, or mature adult content like A Scanner Darkly and, more recently, The Spine of Night and Apollo 10 1/2.