Rotoscoping DAVID CHEN CS294-7 THE ART OF ANIMATION
Technique Take live action footage (source footage) Trace each frame of footage Merge rotoscoped images with the animation
Origins 19 th century studies in motion Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion (1878)
Early Days Max Fleischer: “Out of the Inkwell” (1914), “Betty Boop” (1930s) Disney: Snow White (1937), 101 Dalmatians (1961) Higher level of realism in animation
Out of the Inkwell
Why Rotoscoping? Live action video a-ha - Take On Me (1985) Star Wars (1977) Reuse of source footage Disney: Winnie the Pooh (1960s), The Jungle Book (1967), etc. Budget concerns Ralph Bakshi: Wizards (1977), The Lord of the Rings (1978)
a-ha - Take On Me
Family Guy - Take On Me
Disney: Cheapskates?
Modern Rotoscoping Highly computer- assistated Waking Life (2001) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Digital equivalent: motion capture Actor performs an action System captures 3D positional data Animator uses data to generate realistic motion
A Scanner Darkly
Lord of the Rings: Motion Capture
Conclusion Rotoscoping is used for: Realism Cost-cutting Motion study Rotoscoping (and motion capture) still used widely today