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- noun A
technique in whichanimators trace live-action movement frame by frame. - verb transitive To use this technique upon.
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Examples
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Well, it's sort of new, but animated films have been using a system called rotoscope for seventy or eighty years.
Capturing the Performance Steve Hulett 2007
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Well, it's sort of new, but animated films have been using a system called rotoscope for seventy or eighty years.
Archive 2007-11-01 Steve Hulett 2007
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I often used to have to rotoscope every single frame, but with the help of Twixtor, a program that estimates motion, I now usually “only” have to draw every four frames, every two frames, or sometimes (rarely) every eight frames.
Go Green With The Shamelessly She-Hulk Fan Film! | Fan Cinema Today 2009
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These new clips are all rotoscope heavy; our heroine is green, and when she interacts with other actors, that means rotoscoping her skin, frame by frame, so that she can be turned green in post.
Go Green With The Shamelessly She-Hulk Fan Film! | Fan Cinema Today 2009
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My half rotoscope/half flash puppet method is very time consuming.
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The movements are supremely naturalistic: almost like watching an enhanced version of the rotoscope technique favoured by Richard Linklater in A Scanner Darkly.
Geek out!: Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and the lure of Comic-Con 2011 2011
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The only thing I had to train myself to do is get used to shooting with the intent of adding various effects, be they matte shots, rotoscope shots, or CGI.
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I used Adobe Photoshop; it took about a year and a half to do all the special FX, doing rotoscope; all the FX are done frame by frame – a very long process.
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The rotoscope animation video was actually the second one the band filmed.
Shawn Amos: Literal Videos Parody the Good, the Bad, and the Self-Indulgent 2009
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The animation is only so-so, employing too much rotoscope work IMO.
New post at the Disney Blog Mike 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word rotoscope
Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films.
September 2, 2009