Chapter 7. Rotoscoping and Paint
It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.
—Steven Wright
Rotoscoping (or roto) is the process of adjusting a shot frame by frame. The selections might be made with the manual use of masks, which was introduced in Chapter 3. You may also clone and fill with frame-by-frame paint tools.
Notes
Rotoscoping was invented by Max Fleischer, the animator responsible for bringing the likes of Betty Boop and Popeye to life (patented in 1917). It involved tracing over live-action movement, a painstaking form of motion ...
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