The first thing that we were introduced to during this session was the following video. It demonstrates what rotoscoping is and how we are supposed to interpret it.
Rotoscoping is an animation technique used by animators to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, when realistic action is required.
Young The Giant: Something To Believe In from
Drew Tyndell on
Vimeo.
This video demonstrates professionally how rotoscoping can be used, I personally think it is a very useful technique which can be applied to almost any form of promotional material which uses animation.
To begin this session we had to use footage which we took there and then or had bought in. I chose to film joe in order to work on something straight away.
We then moved the image onto after effects and chose various focal points on each millisecond of the piece, we had to ensure that the clip was only one second long to make sure that we would be able to complete the piece within one session. We had to basically cut around where we wanted the movement to be seen over a timescale, this proved very time consuming and often quite temperamental.
For my final piece I added lemons and moustaches as it was a sarcastic piece and I thought it was highly amusing.
Rotoscoping from
Jessica Mountford on
Vimeo.
