Rotoscoping

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Rotoscoping

• Diane Ko
• Siyu Song
• November 5, 2007

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Rotoscoping

• Animation of live-action film
• Images projected onto screen and redrawn
• Frame by frame reanimation

http//lambiek.net/artists/f/fleischer_max.htm
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http//www.a-ha.com/
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Origins

• 1915 invented by Max Fleischer
• 1920s Fleischer Studios
• Goal to make more fluidanimation style
• Created in response to mechanical form of
  previousanimation techniques

http//www.atos.org/Pages/Journal/Koko/Koko.html
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http//www.archive.org/details/bb_snow_white
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Origins

• First cartoons of Koko the Clown, Popeye, and
  Betty Boop
• Allowed multiple artists working on same
  characters in Snow White

... With only the aid of his imagination, an
artist cannot, as a rule, get the perspective and
related motions of reality." -Max Fleischer
http//www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html
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http//www.archive.org/details/gullivers_travels19
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Feature Films

• Special effects
• Artistic boiling
• Animation references

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
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http//www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-08-0
1-rotoscoping_x.htm
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http//www.foxhome.com/wakinglife/
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Modern Extensions

• More effective tracing using computers
• Modern software uses splines

http//www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html
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Modern Extensions

• Effects painting
• Cloning/Paint touch-up
• Matte creation
• Motion tracking
• Match moving

http//www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html
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