What is it called when a static image is used to texture a moving object?
While watching Chowder on Hulu I noticed that some items like clothing seem to have a static background while characters move, giving an illusion that the design or pattern on their clothing is changing:
I've seen this happen in other cartoons before, though I can't seem to accurately find any other examples at the moment. I originally thought this was a special form of parallax texturing, but I can't find anything on the web describing it in more detail.
What is this technique called?
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TV Tropes (warning: massive time-sink!) calls this "Unmoving Plaid", but the article also claims that the technical term is apparently "perspective-incorrect texturing". Googling that term only brings up results for the opposite, perspective-correct texturing (i.e. textures that correctly follow the perspective of the object they're applied to), so I'm unsure whether "perspective-incorrect texturing" is actually an established term in the animation industry, but either that or Unmoving Plaid would be the names I'd apply to it.
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I don't know what the term for this is within filmmaking/animation, but as a computer graphics technique this is referred to as a "world space texture". For example, see how things look about 6 seconds into this video:
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