Thursday, 19 December 2013

Rotoscoping research

What is Rotoscoping?

Rotoscoping is a technique which animaters use, tracing over footage frame by frame for use in live action and animated films. In the visual effects industry is the technique of manually creating a matt over a live action plate so that it can be replaced with another background. Its mostly used within animations.

The history of Rotoscoping

The technique was invented by a man named Max Fleischer who used rotoscoping in 1915 on a film named 'Out of the ink well' he created this with his brother Dave Fleischer dressed in a clown outfit as the live film reference for koko the clown.







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