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RotoScoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator, frame by frame.  Back before computers and the digital age, rotoscoping was a job in itself. Tedious and time consuming, artists were paid to draw, frame by frame, entire movies.  Could you imagine those old disney movies where everything was drawn by hand and done on paper? So crazy. Here's a better explanation of rotoscoping.

Luckily, I live in a time where this is automated digitally. The Entire process which used to take weeks and months now only takes hours and days. But rotoscoping has taken on very different faces as technology and artists evolved over time. here's another version of rotoscoping, more futuristic than Pinochio and Jimminy Cricket.

Another example of rotoscoping, more practical than motion sensors, is one of my favorite movies A Scanner Darkly, where Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and other famous actors are very recognizable behind the graphic-novel visuals. A Scanner Darkly was made using “Rotoshop,” a software which makes frames between artists’ tracings of the source live-action footage. Gets complicated, doesn’t it? I don't even know if I understand it.
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And for the Finale! The music video for Mark Salverda's all time favorite song uses rotoscope to turn a 1980's boy band into a comic book like love story.