Rotorscoping
Rotorscoping is an animation technique created and patented by Max Fleischer in 1915. Fleischer was inspired by a clown character his younger brother would portray at Coney Island (amusement park) and decided to use the character as inspiration for one of his characters in one of his animations. They way in which the process was completed was by projecting footage of his brother onto an easel covered by glass, a piece of paper was used to trace the footage and a new piece of paper was used to trace each individual frame of animation. Max Fleischer used this technology to animate many famous character such as Popeye ad Superman.
Traditional Rotorscoping
Today the technique can be completed by using both traditional forms and digital forms of animation. When animating traditionally, animators can project footage onto a piece of paper and simply trace the footage onto separate pieces of paper,then sequence, scan and edit the footage to look complete. Once complete the animation would be rendered and placed on film. An example of a production that utilised traditional rotoscoping would be the animation of characters in Max Fleischer's production, Tantalising-Out of the Inkwell-(1919).
This video utilised rotoscoping to animate the characters in the production.
Digital Rotoscoping
When animating digitally, animators can use certain software for example Photoshop, the way they would use it would be by opening up a time line and inputting footage. They would then creating separate video layers for the length of the a frame in the animation and then draw on the layer and shorten/extend the length of the layer. This step would be repeated for each frame of animation and when the project has been completed. The video would be rendered. An example of a production that used rotoscoping would be was created through rotoscoping would be the rotoscoping used to animate Kanye West in his music video Heartless.
Rotoscoping helps create animation that looks very natural and realistic, it enhances the animation by making it look very smooth.
Traditional Rotorscoping
Today the technique can be completed by using both traditional forms and digital forms of animation. When animating traditionally, animators can project footage onto a piece of paper and simply trace the footage onto separate pieces of paper,then sequence, scan and edit the footage to look complete. Once complete the animation would be rendered and placed on film. An example of a production that utilised traditional rotoscoping would be the animation of characters in Max Fleischer's production, Tantalising-Out of the Inkwell-(1919).
Fleischers' Tantalising-Out of the Inkwell-(1919)-
Fleischers'-Tantalising-Out of the Inkwell-(1919)-
Digital Rotoscoping
When animating digitally, animators can use certain software for example Photoshop, the way they would use it would be by opening up a time line and inputting footage. They would then creating separate video layers for the length of the a frame in the animation and then draw on the layer and shorten/extend the length of the layer. This step would be repeated for each frame of animation and when the project has been completed. The video would be rendered. An example of a production that used rotoscoping would be was created through rotoscoping would be the rotoscoping used to animate Kanye West in his music video Heartless.
Scene from Kanye's Heartless Music Video-(2009)-
This video had the rotoscoping technique used through out its entirety as every element of the video from the buildings in the background, to the characters was rotoscoped.
References-
- -https://www.rocketstock.com/blog/rotoscoping-from-early-animation-to-blockbuster-vfx/
- -http://www.toonboom.com/resources/tips-and-tricks/going-bananas-rotoscoping
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