Life Is Cool

Life Is Cool (; rr: Geunyeoneun Yeppeotda; lit. "She Was Beautiful") is a 2008 South Korean romance animated film, and is the first rotoscoped film from that country. This film's visual style was influenced from Richard Linklater's two films, Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006). Plot Three tricenarian best friends — a heart-broken Romeo, a hopeless romantic, and a goofy playboy — meet for the first time in ten years. However, things get complicated when they all fall for the same woman. Cast Kim Su-ro ... Baek Il-kwon Kang Sung-jin ... Kim Tae-yeong Kim Jin-soo ... Seong-hoon Park Ye-jin ... Kang Yeon-woo Kim Roi-ha ... Basketball manager Lee Won ... Samsung scouter David Joseph Anselmo ... Foreign professor Goo Bon-im ... Barbershop woman Kim Choon-gi ... University adulterer Kim Ju-hyeon ... High school girl Yoon Joo-hee ... Joo-hee Jo Young-gyu ... Policeman Park Jin-taek ... Naked man Park Yoo-mil ... Pregnant woman Lee Sang-hong ... Tango gangster Production Life Is Cool was one of four films produced by CJ Entertainment to receive investment from Keyeast, a media contents company co-established by actor Bae Yong-joon. Although actual shooting only lasted for one month, it then took almost two years and 140 artists to complete the rotoscoping, a technique in which animators traced over live action footage frame by frame. Visual effects were created by local production company DNA, who had previously worked on The Animatrix.