Mixing Animation with Reality in GURPS

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Originally Posted by Stormcrow

What is a "realistic" animation but a Toon who can act like a human? "Dying" is just part of the act.

A realistic animation is the use of the medium of animated film or video to represent beings and places in the real world, or a simulacrum of the real world. Being "drawn" doesn't make something a distinct ontological category! We consider Krazy Kat or Popeye to be toons, and perhaps Pogo Possum or Hobbes. But La Gioconda, or The Courtier (a painting of Baldassare Castiglione), or Marat in The Death of Marat, is not a toon, even though they're also pigment on a flat surface; they're portraits.