ROTOSCOPING

ROTOSCOPE MACHINE 

Rotoscoping is to transfer an image from live action film into another film sequence using a rotoscope. Fleisher Studios were the poineers of rotoscoping, the cimpany was founded in the 1920's the rotoscope changed cartoons because before they were jerky and not very good to look at. A rotoscope aloud them to project live action film onto the glass of an animation stand. Paper was then placed on the animation stand and the live action footage traced one frame at a time. The rotoscope was patented in 1917. The first cartoons that used this method was the Koko the Clown Series.

Disney also adopted this method in there cartoons in the 1930's. This led to competition with Fleisher. Using it first in Snow White. The Benifit of using the rotoscope over traditional cartooning was that a more realistic movement could be achieved because the movements could be acted out by a real person and then used this as guidence to trace over to make the cartoons movement . In this clip of felix the cat. rotoscoping has been used. The final peice is quite convincing in some respects, for epamole the tapdancing at 3;48 involves complecated movements and i think could have only been achieved with any real quality by using rotoscoping. However a lot in the clip the movement seems to be unaturally fast and jumpy. This is probably because of the strange shapes of the characters they are working with rather than using human. All together i think it has been produced well and rotoscoping was the best was to create a realistic movement.

Rotoscoping could be used in our after effects to create a realistic motion of a tennis ball flying. using footage of a tennis ball we could trace the flight path and the go over it to create a realistic visual effect. This would mean we have the freedom to do other things with it in after effects while keeping the realistic flight path