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In fact scraping the film stock involves the use of other tools, apart from points and blades, such as sandpaper of varying grit sizes, which can be used for example to create lines of uncertain and variable shapes.

Once again, however, the work of creating animated drawings on film stock is not limited to etching techniques, particularly when artists wish to work on transparent film. This base requires a different approach, one that uses drawing and painting tools and here again responds to the filmmakers’ artistic intentions.^[11]