Rotoscope Research

Since I decided to rotoscope my 20sec animation in Toon Boom, I thought it'd be best if I did a small amount of research into rotoscope as many of my friends have asked me before what rotoscoping is.

So, rotoscoping is basically what animators call when they trace live-action footage frame-by-frame, so that they can use it in animated films.

A good example of a rotoscoped film would be, Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves. The reason why the creators decided to rotoscope the film was because they wanted to give the film a distinctive look.

I have already covered rotoscope in a previous tutorial session and really enjoyed it therefore I decided to create my 20sec animation using rotoscope in Toon Boom, since its a new piece of software to me I decided against using Flash to make an animation since I've used it previously and I know the software quite a bit.