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“Drawing on film” (though only in a digital, metaphorical sense) is more descriptive, but “manipulation” helps me make my point better. In A Waking Life, there was a wide range in the level of manipulation, from scene to scene. At moments, the underlying “actors” readily emerge and appear almost as they would in regular “live-action” films. At other moments, the digital goop is applied so liberally that the viewer detaches from the physical reality of the actors and the set, and the film becomes just a cartoon — a scanner darkly review