Someone has been having fun with rotoscoping…
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LAS VEGAS, NV — 04/14/08 — Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com), creators of next-generation VFX tools, today announced the arrival of mogul. Conceived through customer dialogue and designed and developed by Imagineer Systems, mogul is an entirely new open, collaborative VFX architecture supporting a suite of tightly integrated, modular VFX systems and applications. mogul is the industry’s first collaborative VFX architecture to provide an open platform that unites common design facility talents, such as editing, compositing, 3D design and modelling, and empowers designers in a new VFX workflow that more closely fits the way artists work. Additionally, mogul enables powerful new collaboration capabilities critical in today’s deadline-intensive, and fiscally demanding business climate and offers an innovative new subscription-based pricing model, ensuring mogul is accessible, viable and affordable for facilities of any size or budget.
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Google alerts directed me to these really handy links:
As the online marketer for LazyMovie, I’m quite obsessed with where our site is located in Google. These links below, according to Google, are some of the best links on rotoscoping. Type the word “rotoscoping” and most likely these links would appear in the search results. I have my personal favorites. Check out Scott’s (no. 4) , Effects Corner Blog. His blog is filled with a lot of information on VFX. Also check out Darel’s (no. 2) how to make a lightsaber rotoscoping. Rotoscoping is also quite infamous for Star Wars’ lightsabers. Rotoscoping newbies usually mimics the star wars fight scene as their roto test drive. And of course, check out LazyMovie (no. 7), especially the new demo reel we have for rotoscoping.
There are only two things that can make any motion graphic artist flinch and that’s rotoscoping and chroma keying. Why? Mainly because both processes are time consuming and arm numbing. However despite all these, rotoscoping and chroma keying still remains to be very important in the industry we move in. Which is why, lately, software companies are launching new products that aim to lesses the pain in rotoscoping.
Read more about this article here: LazyMovie Artist’s Top 5 Rotoscoping Software
After, the long wait, LazyMovie finally launched it’s latest demo reel for the year 2008.
Please check out LazyMovie’s Rotoscoping Reel now!
This is a music video of great Tom Waits’ song called, “The one that got away”. The cartoon and life like animation was achieved through the use of rotoscoping, Tom Waits and Donna Gordon was rotoscoped.
To see the live version of this video please visit my blog vigoureux artiste.
Rotoscoping is tracing a live action sequence frame by frame. If you are familiar with Photoshop’s “clipping path“, rotoscoping kindda works the same way only you have to deal with hundreds of frames. Tedious as it sounds, there are a lot of softwares available that makes rotoscoping much easier.
Although this is nothing new, you dont have to painstakingly trace each frame, there is this technique that’s called interpolated rotoscoping wherein the program uses information from the current frame and from the future frame which then creates the in between frames. Now that’s certainly making rotoscoping an easier task.
Here is an article I wrote around 2006 about the history of rotoscoping. If you are really a rotoscoping virgin, then this article can shed some light.
Here are some several popular rotoscoped movies.
You might be asking why do I fuss about rotoscoping? Well, I work in a rotoscoping facility, LazyMovie.
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