The massive video resources of Youtube can be of great help for rotoscoping or animation projects .
There is this really cool Mac application that help download .FLV files from video sites such as Youtube & Dailymotion. and the best part of it is that its free!
-Bob Sabiston’s early career is very much in keeping with the tradition of individual innovation not unlike Blackton, Cohl, McCay, The Fleischers, etc.
-He invented software that allowed for simple tracing over existing footage; It was essentially a modern, digital version of the “rotoscoping” technique.
-Along with Tommy Pallotta, he made Roadhead (1999) which premiered at that year’s ResFest.
-His software allows even novice animators artistic freedom to create poetic animation works; unlike the often mechanical movement in older rotoscoped films, Sabiston’s animation movements are much more fluid and abstract.
-Sabiston and Pallotta team with fellow Austin, Texas resident Richard Linklater to make Waking Life.
-Sabiston was one of the key creative figures responsible for the animation in 2006’s A Scanner Darkly.
Chroma Keying is an old visual effect trick for placing a subject into a completely new scene. Instead of spending large sums of money for highly wrought sets, producers can just opt for green or blue screens, thanks to chroma Keying. Chroma Keying transforms a video footage of a man pretentiously flying in tight harness to a superhero braving the sky to answer a damsel’s cry in distress.
Chroma Keying, otherwise know as blue screen or green keying and color keying, is accomplished by combining visuals from two different sources. The first source is the foreground subject, shot against a blue or green screen. The second source is the background scene and it can be any stock video footage you have of tall skyscrapers in New York or you can cull to recreate the battle of middle earth using CGI (Computer Generated Imagery).
How to rotoscope using After Effects CS4 and Photoshop CS4 This tutorial shows you an example of how to rotoscope footage using After Effects CS4 and Photoshop CS4. See what tools, masks and brushes are able to help you rotoscope and learn how to use the selection and painting tools in Photoshop to efficiently rotoscope. Then, see how to exchange the rotoscope files easily between After Effects CS4 and Photoshop CS4.
True fans of the old-school will get a kick out of the original Prince of Persia animation reference video, now posted on GameVideos.com.
Fortunately, some white pajamas, a camcorder and a little brother who was willing to knock himself around a bit in the name of entertainment gave Mechner enough to create the game’s ground-breaking animations through the process of “rotoscoping,” which involves drawing over each frame of a live-action video sequence in order to create realistic animated movement. It may not look like much now, but 18 years ago that kind of smooth, flowing animation was absolutely jaw-dropping.
This rotoscoped animation is the result of a collaboration between more than 80 students from 11 schools in 4 countries around the world.
http://www.vimeo.com/935486For Adobe’s CS4, the much talked about Mocha, a stand-alone rotoscoping software, is now integrated in After Effects Bundle. Basically Mocha makes motion tracking easier, using plannar tracking system, rather than use AE’s tracking tool.
Below are a few video tutorials for exploring MochaAE:
Below is a very cute rotoscoping video of Kristen Bell and its just in time for the 2008 US elections.
I have here below another rotoscoping tutorial for you guys. Enjoy!
This is one of those viral videos that you’ll have to share with just about anybody. Rotoscoping this video don’t seem to be a drag at all, I think.
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