Rotoscoping
Diane Ko
Siyu Song
November 5, 2007
Rotoscoping
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Animation of live-action film
Images projected onto
screen and redrawn
Frame by frame
reanimation
http://lambiek.net/artists/f/fleischer_max.htm
http://www.a-ha.com/
Origins
1915: invented by Max Fleischer
 1920s: Fleischer Studios
 Goal to make more fluid
animation style
 Created in response to
mechanical form of previous
animation techniques
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http://www.atos.org/Pages/Journal/Koko/Koko.html
http://www.archive.org/details/bb_snow_white
Origins
First cartoons of Koko the Clown, Popeye,
and Betty Boop
 Allowed multiple artists working on same
characters in Snow White
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“... 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
http://www.archive.org/details/gullivers_travels1939
Feature Films
Special effects
 Artistic boiling
 Animation references
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-08-01-rotoscoping_x.htm
http://www.foxhome.com/wakinglife/
Modern Extensions
More effective tracing using computers
 Modern software uses splines
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http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html
Modern Extensions
Effects painting
 Cloning/Paint touch-up
 Matte creation
 Motion tracking
 Match moving
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http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html
The End