What came first – the desire to make a documentary or the desire to make an animated film?
– It was always my intention to make an animated documentary. Since I had already made many documentaries before it was a real excitement going for an animated one. I made an experiment in my documentary TV series THE MATERIAL THAT LOVE IS MADE OF. Each episode opened with a three-minute animated scene introducing scientists talking about the “science of LOVE”. It was basic Flash animation, but it worked so well that I knew a feature length animated documentary would eventually work. What can you tell us about the animation process used in the film? – WALTZ WITH BASHIR was made first as a real video based on a 90-page script. It was shot in a sound studio and cut as a 90-minute length video film. It was made into a story board, and then drawn with 2300 illustrations that were turned into animation. The animation format was invented in our studio “Bridgit Folman Film Gang” by the director of animation Yoni Goodman. It’s a combination of Flash animation, classic animation and 3D. It’s im
