Digital film - cinema's future, the promise of endless possibilities, unfulfilled hopes, a mystified magic word or an already attained state? For over two decades now, and consequently a period quite worth mentioning in the little over 100-year history of film, computers have been taking on an ever greater role as creative tools in film production. For approximate­ ly five years now, in the course of science fiction and fantasy blockbusters, digital film design has been undergoing a hype which has divided itself between two seg­ ments: between digital post-production and digital animation. Both fields of application are in principle as old as cine­ ma itself. Digital post production merely refines and economises traditional means of trick and copying technologies, whe­ reas digital animation replaces hand- drawn cell animation.