sentences:  In reality, because the telephone pole is within a single plane in 3D space, the degree of focus should remain constant from top to bottom - this is what Smallgantics attempts to accurately simulate.The Smallgantics process begins with artists creating as many as eight planes of z-buffering over live-action footage, on a frame by frame basis, resulting in an animated black and white matte sequence.The artist draws these matte sequences around each object in the scene then assigns z-plane focus parameters.