Yoni Goodman

Yoni Goodman is an Israeli animator. He was born in 1976 and studied visual communication at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, where he first took up animation. He worked as a freelance animator and illustrator after graduation in 2002. He was animation director for two films by Ari Folman: the short film The Material That Love is Made of and the feature-length Waltz with Bashir.

For Waltz with Bashir, Goodman invented what he calls the "Flash cutout technique" for animation. It involves cutting illustrations into hundreds of little cutouts in Flash, which are then moved around each other to give the illusion of movement. The effect is really astounding and almost looks like rotoscoping. The poster above gives you an idea of what it looks but it really needs to be seen in motion.

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