Rotoscoping Short Animation

I found this short animation and rotoscoped by berimbau10 (his account name in youtube). A roto vector animation using Illustrator and After Effects.

Just want to share it with you guys.

Top 5 Rotoscoping Software

There are only two things that can make any motion graphic artist flinch and that's rotoscoping and chroma keying. Why? Mainly because both processes are time consuming and arm numbing. However despite all these, rotoscoping and chroma keying still remains to be very important in the industry we move in. Which is why, lately, software companies are launching new products that aim to lessen the pain in rotoscoping.

Here we will talk about the Top 5 best rotoscoping softwares currently available that deliver accurate and fast mattes... click here to read more

The Rotoscoping Saga

Fleischer started it all.

Max Fleischer is unarguably one of the first few animators who have dazzled audiences of all ages starting 1914. Bringing “Betty the Boop” and “Popeye the Sailor” to the silver screen would guarantee him a chapter in the history books, however Max’s greatest achievements wasn’t set on what he put on the screen but on “how”.

The technique called rotoscoping is the brain child of Max Fleischer where he used it in his “Out of the Inkwell” series together with his brother Dave. Rotoscoping then was an impressive technique used in producing lifelike animations. As a matter-of-fact, in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, Dave Fleischer was the live reference of the character Koko the Clown.

The rotoscoping process, at this time, works like this: A live action scene with the actor is shot and will be animated using a transparent easel. The film is then played back frame-by-frame on the underside piece of a glass. On the top side of the glass is the artist who manually traces the live-action sequence per frame of the film. These drawings are then cleaned up and are combined together producing a realistic effect animation.

Rotoscoping was used in several films made by Fleischer which have made a mark in the animation industry. To mention a few are Betty the Boop, Superman, Popeye the Sailor, and Out of the Inkwell (Koko the Clown) ... click here to read more

There’s such thing as Outsource rotoscoping and chroma keying

The outsourcing industry is booming and it is expected to grow even further in the coming years. Driven by improved yet low-cost telecommunication capacity and the upswing of technology, the outsourcing industry is expected to generate a whopping $ 2.5 billion in the next ten years. Though outsourcing is common for customer services, telemarketing, and such, post production outsourcing is now at its infancy. The widespread popularity of the internet and the need for a higher degree of visual effects technical expertise are the sub-plots of a script that spells the need for outsourcing digital video post production workflow.

Outsourcing is a risk and the best heeded advice for outsourcing is to outsource labor intensive yet simple tasks. For the digital video post production workflow, rotoscoping and chroma keying are the “it tasks” to outsource... click here to read more

Mocha: Simple Rotoscoping Tutorial

Here's a Mocha Simple Rotoscoping Tutorial, i found this in youtube. I hope this tutorial would be a big help for those who just started learning rotoscoping.

Enjoy!




Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTPLjOiZ7U

What is Rotoscoping?

For either broadcast video or Internet streaming video, rotoscoping is the rotated projection of a sequence of usually photographed action image frames so that the artist can trace from the frame or create an image to superimpose on it. It can be thought of as "painting on movies" efficiently. Prior to computers, an animation stand called a Rotoscope was used to project a sequence of action frames against a surface so that a set of animation frames could be traced or created. The same work can now be done with digital images and special computer software. Tools that provide efficient ways to rotoscope include Digital Magic and Elastic Reality. Rotoscoping is frequently used as a technique for combining (compositing) cartoon figures with realistic settings in television commercials and is also used for special effects in feature-length films.

A rotoscoping texture (sometimes called a sequence map) is the use of video within an animation, something like an animation within an animation. For example, in a cartoon animation, the television set could show a program containing another animation. Or in a background to an animation in the foreground, you could include some clouds that slowly changed during the foreground animation. The frame rate for both the main animation and the "animation within the animation" must be the same.