15 Rotoscoping
When Max Fleischer created the process of drawing over frames of footage in the 1910s, it had multiple labor-intensive parts: There was the original filmed motion of an actor, the drawn adornments on individual cels of animation, and the composite of animated parts and live action footage. Today, visual effects artists no longer only hand draw on film, but Fleischer’s rotoscoping technique survives in the process of animating over video footage.
The general purpose of rotoscoping is to take advantage of real-life movements, proportions, scale, and speed. If everything has to be drawn straight out of the animator’s brain, the limits are pretty obvious. What exactly does it look like if someone is swinging a baseball bat? How ...
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